Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Warner Bros. has released a trailer for director James Hawes’ biographical drama One Life.
Based on based on Barbara Winton’s book If it’s Not Impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton, the film tells the true story of Nicholas Winton (played by Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped save the lives of 669 children from the Nazis during World War II. Watch the trailer below…
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Hopkins, 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.
Alongside Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn, the film also stars Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter.
One Life is set for release on January 1st.
