One Life (Captioned)

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This film will include Descriptive Subtitles as part of our “Captioned Screenings”. These screenings are for the d/Deaf and those experiencing hearing loss but anyone is welcome to attend.

The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, along with Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warinner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. 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.

Director

James Hawes

Cast

Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Romola Garai, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Jonathan Pryce