Watch Anthony Hopkins in the One Life trailer

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From Academy Award and BAFTA-winning production company See-Saw Films comes One Life, directed by James Hawes and written by Lucinda Coxon & Nick Drake, based on the book, ‘If it’s not impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton’ by Barbara Winton. Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn both play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his extraordinary life. Helena Bonham-Carter plays Winton’s mother, Babi. The cast also includes Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp.

ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?

Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.

The film will be screened at the AMEX Gala at BFI London Film Festival on October 12 2023.

One Life will be released in the UK by Warner Bros. Pictures on 1st January 2024.