One Life

One Life Movie Details:

One Life Movie Cast & Characters:

• Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker and the son of two German-born parents who takes on an important role in the Kindertransport, an organized effort to rescue children from Nazi-occupied territory, in the lead-up to World War II. Hopkins portrays Winton as a 79-year-old reminiscing on his past, while Flynn portrays him as a 29-year-old on the eve of the war.
• Helena Bonham Carter as Babi Winton, Nicholas’s British, German-born mother who actively assists in his humanitarian efforts.
• Lena Olin as Grete Winton, the elderly Winton’s wife
• Jonathan Pryce as Martin Blake, another Kindertransport humanitarian who remains friends with an elderly Winton. The film marks the third time Hopkins and Pryce worked together, after a one-night theatre performance of Under Milk Wood in 1992 and the 2019 film The Two Popes.
  • Ziggy Heath portrays a young Martin Blake
• Romola Garai as Doreen Warriner, an English Kindertransport humanitarian helping on-site in Czechoslovakia
• Alex Sharp as Trevor Chadwick, a British Kindertransport humanitarian who accompanied some of the children during their escapes by train
• Samantha Spiro as Esther Rantzen, the British presenter of the BBC TV show That’s Life!, which runs a story on Winton
• Juliana Moska as Hana Hejdukova
• Ella Novakova as Lenka
• Samuel Finzi as Rabbi Hertz
• Henrietta Garden as Vera Gissing
  • Frantiska Polakova as young Vera Diamontova
• Alzbeta Cerna as Eva Diamontova
• Jolana Jirotkova as gap-toothed girl
• Anna Darvas as Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines
• Marthe Keller as Elisabeth Maxwell
• Michael Gould as Leadbetter
• Adrian Rawlins as Geoff
• Antonie Formanová as Marta

Storyline:

The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish 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 realized 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.

One Life Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:

About One Life Movie:

One Life is a biographical drama film directed by James Hawes. Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, and Jonathan Pryce co-star in supporting roles.

Based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, the film alternates between following Anthony Hopkins as a 79-year old Winton reminiscing on his past, and Johnny Flynn as a 29-year-old Winton attempting to help groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II.

One Life had its world première at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023, and its European première at the 2023 London Film Festival.The film received mostly positive reviews, with praise for the performances of the cast, particularly Hopkins and Bonham Carter.

It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2024 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and later in the United States on 15 March 2024 by Bleecker Street.