One Life (upcoming film)
# One Life (upcoming film)

One Life is an upcoming biographical film of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Winton, who due to his actions has sometimes been called "the British Oskar Schindler", referring to the German humanitarian who saved more than a thousand Jewish refugees from the Holocaust during World War II. Winton helped groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of the war.

## Synopsis

A British stockbroker visits Czechoslovakia in the 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 younger Nicholas Winton
* Helena Bonham Carter as Babi Winton
* Lena Olin as Grete Winton
* Jonathan Pryce as Martin Blake
   * Ziggy Heath as younger Martin Blake
* Romola Garai as Doreen Warriner
* Alex Sharp as Trevor Chadwick
* Samantha Spiro as Esther Rantzen

## Production

In September 2020 Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn were announced as being attached to a bio-pic about Nicholas Winton called One Life. From a Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake screenplay, Aisling Walsh was set to direct with See-Saw Films and BBC Film producing through executive producers Rose Garnett and Simon Gillis, and producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Joanna Laurie. FilmNation Entertainment and Cross City Films were to be managing international sales. In September 2022 it was revealed that James Hawes was attached to direct his feature film debut whilst Helena Bonham Carter had joined the cast as Winton’s mother, Babi Winton. It was also revealed that Guy Heeley was on board as producer and that the screenplay was based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton, written by his daughter Barbara Winton. Also announced as joining the cast were Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp. Filming took place in London in September 2022, with principal photography also taking place in Prague.

