One Life
2023
***
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Max Irons, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Gambon, Alex Jennings, Iain Glen, Jim Broadbent, David Kross
Just before WW2, Nicholas Winton rescued hundreds of (mostly Jewish) refugee children by arranging their transport from Czechoslovakia to Britain. His actions went largely unrecognised for decades. This respectable but unremarkable biographical drama, a Schindler's List-lite if you will, tells his story. Johnny Flynn plays Winton at the time of the rescue effort and Antony Hopkins portrays him as a modest old man who is reluctant to bask in the glory. The moving climax shows the profound impact he had on the lives of those he saved.
