Click on the poster for trailer
This is an emotional and uplifting film starring Anthony Hopkins, based on a true story that was brought to the nation’s attention in 1988 by Esther Rantzen in That’s Life. Here is some background information:
Nicholas Winton always claimed he “wasn’t heroic” yet it was down to this British Schindler’s business sense and compassion that 669 children were swept out of Prague to safety before the Nazis arrived, writes Gavin Mortimer.
One of the most popular television programmes of the 1980s was BBC magazine show That’s Life. It regularly pulled in more than 20 million viewers each week, but few episodes were as powerful as the one broadcast on 27 February 1988.
Near the end of the show, host Esther Rantzen produced a scrapbook that listed the names of hundreds of mostly Jewish children brought to Britain from Czechoslovakia in 1939, from under the noses of the Nazis. One of the names was Vera Diamant, a ten-year-old whose parents had arranged for her and an older sister to start a new life in Britain.
Click below for a clip from the That’s Life programme from 1988: https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishMonarchy/videos/sir-nicholas-winton/209737600183729/
The actress playing the part of Vera as an adult is Ropley resident Henrietta Garden. Henrietta will be joining us for our screening of One Life and will give a talk at the end about the making of the film.
And, just to remind you, the link to the official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G-PA1oMPI
Sarah Flook
Cinema at Ropley