Directed by:
James HawesScreenplay:
Lucinda CoxonCinematography:
Zac NicholsonComposer:
Volker BertelmannCast:
Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Samuel Finzi, Michael Gould (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Johnny Flynn, who, along with Trevor Chadwick (played by Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warinner (played by Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II,. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky (played by Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
(Warner Bros. UK)
Cast
![Michal Roneš](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/111/161111120_9d70d8.jpg)
Michal Roneš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
One Life (2023)
![Kateřina Jebavá](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/414/165414035_21d2a4.jpg)
Kateřina Jebavá
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (2016) (theatrical recording)
Stavrogin je ďábel (2005) (theatrical recording)
One Life (2023)
Kiana Klysch
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Rút Schmidtová
Czech Republic
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
As Light as Breath (2013) (TV movie)
Ziggy Heath
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Spies of Warsaw (2013) (series)
The Miniaturist (2017) (series)
Beáta Mikušová
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Emergency Situation (2022)
![Janusz Hummel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/519/162519635_225c17.jpg)
Michaela Hráská
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Fall of the Innocent (2011)
Rats (2020) (series)
![Jiří Valeš](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/287/165287117_209df5.jpg)
Jiří Valeš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Der Zürich-Krimi (2016) (series)
Ottilie von Faber-Castell – Eine mutige Frau (2019) (TV movie)
![Kateřina Dias](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/469/168469897_reaovz.jpg)
Kateřina Dias
Czech Republic
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
One Life (2023)
Into the Darkness (2023) (TV movie)
Milan Ligač
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
One Life (2023)
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
![Adrian Rawlins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/218/162218506_6162b0.jpg)
Adrian Rawlins
UK
Best movies:
Chernobyl (2019) (series)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
One Life (2023)
![Samantha Spiro](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/526/162526790_5108a0.jpg)
Samantha Spiro
UK
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Me Before You (2016)
Tomorrow La Scala! (2002)
![Lukáš Král](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/358/162358001_8b2ffa.jpg)
Lukáš Král
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Royal Affair (2012)
Czech Century (2013) (series)
![Vilma Frantová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/969/168969670_dzflru.jpg)
Vilma Frantová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Last of the Cyclists (2014) (TV movie)
![Aleš Bílík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/575/164575647_9a58d1.jpg)
Aleš Bílík
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Doktor Faustus (2016) (theatrical recording)
Our Lovely Pig Slaughter (2024)
![Jaromíra Mílová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/478/164478448_bd69bc.jpg)
Jaromíra Mílová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sluha dvou pánů (2010) (theatrical recording)
One Life (2023)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Simon Thorp
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
One Life (2023)
The Sweeter Side of Life (2013) (TV movie)
Eliška Jechová
Best movies:
One Life (2023)