{"id":106993,"date":"2023-09-12T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106993"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:51:58","slug":"16-00-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106993","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer Drops for \u2018One Life\u2019 Starring Anthony Hopkins as Holocaust Hero Nicholas Winton"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>First Trailer Drops for \u2018One Life\u2019 Starring Anthony Hopkins as Holocaust Hero Nicholas Winton<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian
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Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton in \u201cOne Life.\u201d Photo: Courtesy of TIFF<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The official trailer was released last week for the upcoming film One Life<\/em>, in which star actor Sir Anthony Hopkins takes on the lead role of Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker whose real life heroic efforts saved hundreds of children from Nazi persecution on the eve of World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film, made in collaboration with BBC Films and See Saw Films, stars actor Johnny Flynn as a young Winton while Hopkins plays him during his older years. When Flynn\u2019s character is asked in the trailer why he is risking his life to help hundreds of children, he replies, \u201cBecause I may be able to do something about it \u2014 I must.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The extended cast includes Helena Bonham Carter \u2014 whose grandfather<\/a> saved thousands from the Holocaust \u2014 as Winton\u2019s German-Jewish mother, Babette Winton, and Jonathan Pryce as Martin Blake. Carter\u2019s character tells a young Winton in the film, \u201cNicky, you must know, we cannot save them all. You have to forgive yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Winton visited Prague in December 1938 and found thousands of refugees who fled the Nazis in Germany and Austria and now faced the threat of a Nazi invasion in Czechoslovakia. Over the course of the next few years, he helped transport nearly 700 children, mostly Jewish, safely from Czechoslovakia to London through the Kindertransport initiative, up until the borders closed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afterwards, for five decades, Winton lived with grief and guilt over the children he could not save \u2014 until the live BBC television show That\u2019s Life! surprised him by introducing him to some surviving children, who are now adults. That real life moment is one of many emotional scenes portrayed in One Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Winton was nicknamed the \u201cBritish Schindler\u201d for his efforts and knighted in 2003 by Queen Elizabeth II. He died in 2015 at the age of 106.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Life, from director James Hawes, will be released in theaters in the United Kingdom on Jan. 1, 2024. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the trailer below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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