One Life

One Life is a 2023 biographical drama film about British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Winton. The film follows Winton as he looks back on his past efforts 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. It also stars Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Jonathan Pryce, and Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023, and its European premiere at the 2023 London Film Festival, followed by a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2024 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Synopsis A British stockbroker visits Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport. Cast Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton Johnny Flynn as young Nicholas Winton Helena Bonham Carter as Babi Winton Lena Olin as Grete Winton Jonathan Pryce as Martin Blake Ziggy Heath as young Martin Blake Romola Garai as Doreen Warriner Alex Sharp as Trevor Chadwick Samantha Spiro as Esther Rantzen