Film: One Life
Cast:  Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce, Adrian Rawlins, Romola Garai
Director: James Hawes
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 119 min

Holocaust stories are always gravitating and this one is more so because we’ve seen the great man on a television grab as one of the guests in the British Show “That’s Life.”An unsuspecting member of the audience, he was surrounded by grown men and women, who were Jewish kids he had rescued from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of World War II. The clip had gone viral and people all over the world became privy to the great man’s exploits. Nicholas Winton is his name and the children he saved were known as “Nicky’s Children.”

“One Life” is based on that true story and dutifully follows the experiences of Nicholas Winton in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of World War II. The story is now familiar but the act of heroism is not. That emotion charged moment on Television where he gets surprised by the children he rescued is also part of the dramatization here.