Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton in One Life
was no stranger to films about the life-saving work he carried out in the early days of World War II. From, a number of productions—both documentary and drama—tried to do justice to his remarkable achievement of evacuating 669 Jewish children through Nazi-occupied territories in Europe. This work earned Winton a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. But for almost five decades, the man dubbed the “—releasing nationwide in the U.S.
Hawes, meanwhile, was focused on creating consistency while directing two men as Winton at opposite ends of his lifetime. “Johnny came to watch Tony working,” recalls Hawes. “You'll see some gestures with their glasses or a thing they do with their eyes, or hesitation or stuttering in the voice occasionally, those are things that Johnny worked at, inspired by what Tony had done.”
With the help of volunteers such as Doreen Warriner and Trevor Chadwick, as well as his mother, Winton was able to evacuate eight trains full of vulnerable children to the U.K. between March and August of 1939. Upon their arrival, he had arranged for foster families to care for them until they were 18, with each family agreeing to pay £50 in guarantee., a ninth train carrying 250 was due to leave Prague on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Nazi Germany invaded Poland, forcing its borders shut.
In 1988, Winton’s wife Grete told her friend Elisabeth Maxwell, a Holocaust researcher, about the scrapbook of evacuations that Winton led. Maxwell’s husband Robert Maxwell, a media mogul, was drawn to the story and a retelling soon appeared in his tabloidWinton agreed to appear on the show. Unbeknownst to him, producers had arranged for Vera Gissing—one of the people he saved when she was a child—to sit next to him in the audience.
“Nicky became a lightning rod for these kids, to their unknown families and their past. Most of them had no idea how they came to be in Britain, how they came to be with their foster families,” Hawes says. The director certainly felt the pressure of creating a scene that has been so widely viewed; one upload has been viewed 42 million times since it was posted 14 years ago. Hawes says it was “terrifying, because you risk people going, ‘Oh, the clip was better.
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