Monday Night Cinema

One Life

1938: Nicolas Winton (Johnny Flynn - Ripley, Vanity Fair), an English stockbroker, is shocked by the Nazi’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. He decides to travel to Prague, a journey that results in him helping to rescue 669 children from a terrible fate. 

Fifty years later, and Nicky (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the children he was unable to save. But when the BBC television show That’s Life!, introduces him to some of the now grown-up children he rescued, he finally begins to come to terms with the emotions he has carried for many years, and also receives the recognition his unknown bravery deserves.

Hopkins and Flynn feature as the older and younger Winton, alongside an all-star cast, in this incredible true story of bravery and heroism.