ONE LIFE Star Says Movie About ‘British Schindler’ is ‘Profoundly Moving’
By Movieguide® Contributor
ONE LIFE star Romola Garai recently shared her thoughts on the “profoundly moving” movie, which tells the story of how over 600 children were saved from the Nazis.
“Nicholas Winton obviously never sought any acknowledgment, really, for what he’d done,” the actress said in an interview with Movieguide®.
Sir Nicholas Winton, played by Anthony Hopkins in the movie, was a young stockbroker in the years leading up to the beginning of WWII. He was “on vacation where he discovered the plight of Czechoslovakian refugees living in dire circumstances as Hitler was on the precipice of invading the country and war could soon break out,” Deadline wrote.
The outlet continued, “This unassuming man decided to do something about it, gathering the names of as many children as he could and then centering his efforts to get them to Prague where ‘Nicky’s Children’, as they would come to be known, were given the opportunity to get on trains, placed there by their increasingly panicked parents, and sent to England and foster homes out of harm’s way.”
“People like Nicholas Winton and Doreen Warriner (Garai), they understood instinctively what was going to happen in Europe,” Garai explained. “They really had a feeling people were in existential danger.”
She praised Winton, Warriner and the people they worked with for giving up “everything that they could” to save others, adding, “They dropped their lives in order to do this.”
“They genuinely were ordinary people but with a capacity for instinct and also for strength of character that was maybe exceptional,” Garai said. “It’s a wonderful thing, I think, to have what they had, which was the sense that they could do extraordinary things. That was just who they were…[they] just didn’t really think it was anything out of the ordinary.”
She concluded, “I think it is a very profoundly moving experience, watching the film.”
Winton’s son Nick echoed Garai’s comments in an interview with PEOPLE, saying, “[Winton] wasn’t really comfortable being put in the spotlight, as in England [he was] called the British Schindler or a hero. He believed, and I think quite rightly, that he never did anything that was heroic in the sense that he said I was never in danger.”
ONE LIFE is already receiving praise from critics and audiences. A portion of the Movieguide® review reads:
ONE LIFE is a very well made, entertaining movie. The movie has incredible sets, with excellent acting. Because of the nature of the content, the movie is geared more toward older, mature viewers. ONE LIFE has a morally uplifting, redemptive worldview about caring for the weakest and most vulnerable among us, children. ONE LIFE tells a very beautiful story of sacrificing for those in need. Also, the movie’s hero is humble in his work and isn’t doing good works for the recognition.
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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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