1ST ONE LIFE IMAGES
FROM ANTHONY HOPKINS HOLOCAUST MOVIE DRAMA
Toronto Film Festival has unveiled a line up of films that will be presented there this year and getting a world premiere in Toronto is ONE LIFE which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker (Johnny Flynn) who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669
children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against 
time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children
– now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother, with Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp also in the cast.
children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against 
time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children
– now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother, with Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp also in the cast.
Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter...this movie should be good.
ReplyDeleteI cannot stand Bonham Carter due to her vicious tongue, but I do like both Hopkins and Flynn is usually nice.
DeleteI hadn't heard that she was like that. I'm saddened if so.
DeleteShe supports both Rowling and Depp, a vile creature.
DeleteThe Holocaust/WW II drama is fashionable again (we have All the LIght We Cannot See and World on Fire2 coming up this Fall), but they do it soo poorly that ends up being a waste of money,. it's like Trasatlantic, so embarrassing that I cannot bring myself to criticize it
ReplyDeleteThere is also the one on Discovery. It seems to be the new trend, but sadly I never watch WW2 dramas, just too much suffering for me.
DeleteI really like Anthony Hopkins.
ReplyDeleteHe is a nice actor and very unique.
DeleteI remember seeing the That's Life episode which featured this gentleman. Esther Ranzen asked all the people in the studio who had been saved by him to stand up and it was the vast majority of people there.
ReplyDeleteCannot imagine how he felt.
DeleteI saw the clip too and it was so dang touching. Sometimes it's easier to dwell on what we couldn't do instead of what we did do. It wasn't his job to save them all. Even had he just saved 1, that's a huge impact right there and already made a positive ripple in the world. Those 669 people, what he did for them, that's a debt they can never repay.
ReplyDeleteIt defo is.
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