‘One Life’ review: Anthony Hopkins plays a man who rescued kids from Nazis
nypost.comthe viral YouTube video of an old man learning on live TV that the studio audience around him is made up of people he rescued from the Nazis as children.
If you haven’t, give it a watch. It’s profoundly moving.Running time: 110 minutes. Not yet rated.Winton facilitated the risky and complex relocation of 669 mostly Jewish kids in Czechoslovakia to Britain during World War II — an operation known as the Kindertransport.
When his herculean task was finished, he humbly returned to private life in England and rarely spoke of his heroic deeds again.Decades later, on a 1988 episode of the BBC talk show “That’s Life,” Winton finally witnessed the enormous impact he made.“One Life,” which premiered Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, expands on that touching clip and depicts the brave man’s time in Prague and his battle against British government bureaucracy to allow the imperiled children into the UK.Hopkins plays the elderly Winton, who endures painful flashbacks to those terrifying days.
An even-tempered Johnny Flynn takes on the role of the man’s younger self during the war, who is aided in the effort by his no-nonsense German expat mother Babi (Helena Bonham Carter) back home.Director James Hawes’ film is an automatic tearjerker, no doubt about it.
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