Trailer for Anthony Hopkins’ ONE LIFE tells the true story of Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton

Bleecker Street has a new trailer for the upcoming drama A life. This is a biographical drama starring Anthony Hopkins and tells the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a Holocaust hero responsible for saving hundreds of Jewish children during World War II. This looks like an incredible film that tells a powerful story.

Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton is “a young London broker played by Hopkins, who, in the months before the Second World War, saved 669 children from the Nazis. 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 the threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately understood that it was a race against time. How many children could he and his team save before the borders close?

The film is based on Barbara Winton If it’s not impossible… novel, and is directed by James Hawkes from a screenplay written by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake. The film is also the protagonist Helena Bonham Carter as Babi Winton, Lena Olin as Grete Winton, Jonathan Price as Martin Blake, Samantha Spiro in the role of Esther Rantzen, Alex Sharp as Trevor Chadwick, Romola Garai as Doreen Warriner and more.

The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and critics loved it! The film received many positive reviews. The film will arrive in theaters on March 15, 2024.