"One Life" Preview Film Screening
When:
Tuesday, Mar 05, 2024 7:00p -
9:00p
Tuesday, Mar 05, 2024 7:00p -
9:00p
Where:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446
Admission:
$12
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, History, Movies
A preview screening of One Life, which tells the incredible, emotional, true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (played by Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children before Nazi occupation closes the borders.
Fifty years later, Nicky is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until the BBC show “That’s Life!” re-introduces him to some of those he helped rescue that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he carried – all the while skyrocketing from anonymity to a national hero.
The film is based on the biography written by his daughter, Barbara Winton.
