Anthony Hopkins Holocaust Drama ‘One Life’ Sets European Premiere at BFI London Film Festival – Global Bulletin
11.08.2023 - 14:21
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Naman Ramachandran James Hawes‘ Holocaust drama “One Life” will be the American Express Gala at the 67thBFI London Film Festival. The film tells the true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to WWII, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to 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. The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham-Carter. Hawes said: “This film pretty much begins and ends in London and says so much about the people of this city, its heart and its history.
So it feels right that we have our U.K. launch at the BFI London Film Festival.” The film will receive its European premiere on Oct. 12 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.
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