From the 2023 TIFF Red-Carpet Premier, James Hawes, Director of the Movie ONE LIFE Starring Anthony Hopkins as Humanitarian, Nicholas Winton

Have you ever taken a stand or gone to battle for something you strongly believed in?Written by Lucinda Coxon & Nick Drake, the movie ONE LIFE is based on the book, “If it’s not impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton” by Barbara Winton.In wide release January 2024, the movie tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669 children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague, witnessing first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton is haunted by the fate of the children he couldn’t bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades.I caught up with James Hawes, the film’s director, on the red-carpet at the 2023 TIFF premier to talk about why this movie was made now, Winton’s impact & legacy, and what viewers need to take away after seeing it. 

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