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Directed by | James Hawes |
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Based on | If It's Not Impossible…The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton |
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Cinematography | Zac Nicholson |
Edited by | Lucia Zucchetti |
Music by | Volker Bertelmann |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Countries | Australia United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $56.4 million[2] |
One Life is a 2023 biographical drama film directed by James Hawes.[3] Based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, the film alternates between following Anthony Hopkins as a 79-year old Winton reminiscing on his past, and Johnny Flynn as a 29-year old Winton who successfully helps 669 predominantly Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II. Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp and Jonathan Pryce co-star in supporting roles.[4]
One Life had its world première at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023, and its European première at the 2023 London Film Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2024 by Warner Bros. Pictures,[5][6][1] and later in the United States on 15 March 2024 by Bleecker Street.[7] The film received mostly positive reviews, with praise for the performances of the cast, particularly Hopkins and Bonham Carter.