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Winton's work is the subject of three films by Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč: the drama All My Loved Ones (1999), [112] in which Winton was played by Rupert Graves; the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (Síla lidskosti—Nicholas Winton, 2002), which won an Emmy Award; [113] and the documentary drama Nicky's Family. [114]
Nicholas Winton’s daughter Barbara Winton had specifically requested that Hopkins play her father in the film. While Barbara’s death in 2022 prevented her from seeing her vision come to ...
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 ...
"Marie Schmolka was the only Czechoslovak representative at the Evian conference of July 1938, which focused on the Jewish refugee crisis. After the Munich agreement of September 1938, together with Doreen Warriner, she organised the Kindertransporte scheme that brought in Sir Nicholas Winton.
Britain's Nicholas "Nicky" Winton helped hundreds of children escape the Nazis during World War II — a tale told by director James Hawes with moving restraint.
The headboard worn by No. 60163 Tornado from Harwich to Liverpool Street station, the final leg of the Winton Train from Prague. The Winton Train was a private passenger train that travelled from the Czech Republic to Great Britain in September 2009 in tribute to the wartime efforts of Sir Nicholas Winton, described as the 'British Schindler' for his part in saving refugee children from ...
Telling a story its modest hero was reluctant to share, the new film dramatizes the life of Nicholas Winton, the stockbroker who saved children during WWII.
For his actions, Winton has been compared by the British press to Oskar Schindler. [24] A biography of Winton was written by his daughter, The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, [25] [26] and documentaries were later made about his achievements. [23] Other members of his team included Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner.