It's a perfect role for Anthony Hopkins: a modest, elderly man who disdains fuss, keeping his secrets to himself. In “One Life,” Hopkins plays the real-life character of Nicholas Winton, a London stockbroker who somehow rescued 669 Jewish refugee children in Prague on the eve of World War II, saving them from certain death.
This image released by Bleecker Street shows Anthony Hopkins in a scene from “One Life.” This image released by Bleecker Street shows Anthony Hopkins in a scene from “One Life.” This image released by Bleecker Street shows Anthony Hopkins in a scene from “One Life.” at the ripe age of 106, the former London stockbroker and self-proclaimed “ordinary man” had been widely recognized for his extraordinary deeds — rescuing 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, saving them from certain death.
What he’s truly great at, though, is that moment when he finally lets the wall around him crumble and shows what he’s been feeling all along. Yes, this happens in “One Life,” and yes, you’ll likely be wiping tears along with him. The emotional payoff takes a while to arrive, but once it does in the last act of this film, you’ll have a hard time forgetting Hopkins’ face.
We first meet the elder Winton at home in Maidenhead, a town in southeast England. It’s 1987, and he’s staring at faded photos of children from the war. He spends his days involved in local charity work. He can’t seem to get rid of all the clutter in his study, despite the pleadings of his wife, Grete , who tells him: “You have to let go, for your own sake.” He’s still trying to figure out what to do with a frayed leather briefcase, which contains a precious scrapbook full of war memories.
In Prague, he finds desperate families and starving children, like a 12-year-old girl caring for an infant who has lost its parents. “We have to move the children,” he tells his colleagues. They say the task is too daunting.
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