Helena Bonham Carter Reveals the Fascinating History Behind New ‘One Life’ Film
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2024
- 'One Life' tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. 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 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.
'One Life' is a remarkable, thought-provoking and deeply emotional new film coming to cinemas this January depicting this humanitarian triumph. A true story of one man, who risked everything to save the lives of others.
In this video, Dan Snow sits down with the exemplary cast (Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn and Romola Garai) to find out more about the incredible true story and the process of depicting incredible feat.
One Life is in cinemas now!
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A good friend was saved by Sir Nicholas as a child. She grew up in Bavaria and went to the last Jewish school. She and her sister went with Kindertransport to England. In the tv show of Sir Nicholas, she was the second person to his right. She went on from being saved to being the person who began the initiative for public television to have educational programming for children. That effort became Sesame Street. My youngest is named for her as she had no family of her own. She and her sister were the only siblings of the Kindertransport to be reunited with both parents after the war.
This is an extraordinary true story. And it's a grain of salt how much an action of love can change the world or small spaces in it, transforming lives forever.
I am 66 years old and enjoyed a childhood full of love and stability. Grandparents came through Ellis Island, settled in the city and raised children who went on to college and became educators. My parents moved to the suburbs and helped create so many "wonder years" for my sister and me. Please tell your good friend how much I admire her courage, resilience and efforts to make the lives of other children better.
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Thank you for sharing.
Here in Portugal we had a diplomat that proceded the same way: is name was Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He disobeyed a direct order of the portuguese government of the time. The price he had to pay for saving thousands was unemployment, misery and persecution. He died in the utmost state of misery, he and all his family. This examples are those of men of real courage and humanity.
There were indeed many - a Portuguese diplomat, a Greek princess, a Japanese consular official, Polish farmers - and so very many others. And like Nicky Winton, they were all driven by a fundamental humanity that is an example to us all today, just as it was then. I like to think that, in the telling of the story of Nicky and his team, we are honouring them all.
I remember his story. Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks for sharing this. Its sad and disheartning! May his soul rest in peace. Good souls are rare.
I remember watching the story on That's Life and crying when the children (now adults) he saved surrounded him in the audience, it was so moving, what a brave man to do what he did.
I cry every time I watch it
New Zealand bought 733 Polish children out of the USSR via Iran when Stalin released Polish POWs in 1944, most were orphans and others had fathers and mother serving in the Free Polish Forces. These children now have grandchildren and great-grandchildren who still keep their Polish heritage alive and are now also Kiwis! Many met their husbands and wives within the group and the NZ Govt and NZ Red Cross housed, fed and educated them. Given the Soviet occupation of Poland post-war, many chose to stay and restart their lives in NZ.
As a fellow Kiwi I wasn't aware of this history. Thank you for sharing 😊
There are so many untold stories about the war and such heroes/ heroines and their stories must be told, tell yours!
My aunt Victoria was one of those. She is still alive in her early 90s as is her husband. She had 7 children.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Tears
I remember watching the episode of That's Life that he appeared on at the time. It was so moving hearing what he did and then seeing his reaction when he realised the people that surrounded him in the audience.
Me too. I bawled.
it was a great programme.
True heroes/ heroines never say anything about their achievements in such horrific times, and they even beat them selves up because they could not do more... we must tell their stories even if they do not, the world needs to know them - the silent ones with the biggest hearts
I am thrilled there is a movie about this man...his story is incredible...kudos...
So MANY people helped save so many other human beings from certain death all over the world. THEY will never be identified or have films made about their wonderful deeds. Nicholas Winton represents them all.
From what I know of him, I think that's the take he could have accepted.
Perhaps I may respond.This film represents a singular event within the expanding horror of the Shoah. Many thousands of non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives have been honored at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jerusalem, where their names will shine forever, as 'The Righteous ' or in Hebrew ' hasidei umot haolam ' - individuals who could not stand by and do nothing.
That required a special kind of bravery, so to be named one of the Righteous Among Nations is a very special recognition for their courage and determination to do the right thing - each one a light in the dark !!!!!
@@MrTorleon There is that. But what I'm thinking of in terms of people who will never be recognised is something like the throwaway mention in an interview book with a minister and respected theologian in my church (now passed away), where he mentions that in the congregation where he was as a young minister-in-training during WW2, they, this is a paraphrase from memory, "wrote some Jewish families into the books for a lot earlier than they should have."
As it happens, one side of my family comes from that city, and that congregation, and there are family rumours we never have been able to confirm that great-grandfather (passed away when I was little) successfully hid Jewish ancestry during WW2.
So even though my family's not Jewish, definitely has not been for at least four generations, it's entirely possible that even I exist because of someone who did something.
Heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times. A statement i find rings true in surprising ways.
I saw the movie a couple of days ago. It’s a deeply moving story and the recreation of the That’s Life show was done faithfully and was very emotional. Like the Schindler Jews, the Winton descendants survived, due to the dogged determination of one man and his team. I cannot imagine how incredibly difficult it must have been for the parents of the children to hand them over to strangers in an effort to ensure their survival. I was happy to learn about this very humble man.
Why has no one yet told the story of his own grandfather, the Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón. that he signed thousands of visas to help Jews escape through Spain to embark in Portugal towards America and other countries?
And happening now against Palestinians. Tragic.
I can't wait to watch this movie. About a humble man doing something just because it's the right thing to do.
Why has no one yet told the story of his own grandfather, the Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón. that he signed thousands of visas to help Jews escape through Spain to embark in Portugal towards America and other countries?
I've seen it today. It's wonderful. Truly wonderful movie
It was outstanding. It literally broke my heart. It even makes me cry to write this.
This looks beautiful. Love Anthony Hopkins and Helene Bonham Carter…..can’t wait to see this wonderful movie.
Note to all interviewers: Let your subjects finish their sentences, please. You can always edit the interview, but this guy (and so many other interviewers) keep interjecting and talking over the person, and they forget they are not the focus of the interview! That said, I am glad I heard about this and will definitely watch it.
Fantastic story. Thank you for making sure it isn’t forgotten
The dear little children in this movie were amazing. I think i saw Johnnys small boy.
I have seen the real clip of Nicolas Winter and the Children he saved in the studio.... So touching....
Very moving
I do hope that this film lives up to the hype !!! I am Jewish, most of my family were murdered by the Gestapo in Belgium. A stunning and emotionally deep documentary was produced a few years ago hosted by Sir Martin Gilbert, Holocaust historian, together with Rwandan genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire. together, they followed the stories of those diplomats who not only risked their careers, their own lives and those of their families, but made every humanitarian effort to save, collectively thousands of Jewish lives, which included many, many children.
Previous films, in my view have failed to capture the indescribable desperation that these terrible circumstances created - I hope that this film does true justice to both the dead, and those who survived.
It won't.
I’ve seen ’One Life’ twice, and no doubt I will see it several more times. It is a good film, but it is nevertheless a dramatic film, not a documentary, and as such it cannot possibly fully capture the indescribable desperation and brutality of these events, and no art form could possibly do adequate justice for those who suffered death and loss. It can only be a representation, in this case one inspired by the memoir written by Nicholas Wilton’s daughter. And as such, it is a worthy re-telling of just one perspective of this invaluable story.
With no political, geographic, social or religious axe to grind here, the utter shame of our species is that events such as those retold in ‘One Life’ are thoroughly commonplace in human history, and sadly look set to remain so for the foreseeable future.
@@chrisdrake447 Thank you for your response, and your point is well taken. Documentaries have, as their main purpose, the dissemination of information with a reasonably high degree of reliability.Films, by contrast are about entertainment - or as one of my past students prosaically put it ' bums on seats ' !!!!!
Films with high production values and dedicated research can, to a degree incorporate both, as witness the obvious example of ' Schindler`s List ' which despite the horror of the storyline, and the demand of serious viewing was a tremendous box office hit, as they say :)
I have yet to see this film -I am not a great movie buff to be honest, but I hope I will not be too dissapointed when I do - I feel encouraged that you consider it a good film :)
I think it showed the desperation and fear very authentically. It was very well portrayed
Just saw this at the Cinema, and totally drawn into the whole era. Incredibly well done..loved every minute of this extraordinary man and group of people to save LIFE. Thank you!
I saw it today and it was a FABULOUS MOVIE. SO GOOD.
Hadn't seen any ads for this movie but now I must see it!
Saw the episode in My Grandfather's War found it really moving. Want to see this movie
I can't stop looking to Helena 😍😍😍😍 How can be a person be só beautiful?
History isn't destiny but it does give you signposts to be aware of.
Excellent interview. I must get tickets.
Now I understand why Helena narrated “Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl”. ❤
Her own grandfather, the diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, is know as the Spanish Schindler.
@@ializargoh wow.
I am so looking forward to seeing this film but I am sure it will rip my heart out.
As much as she says her work id potentially meaningless, a lot of these amazing peoples stories, like nikki, would be lost to the younger generations. I learned aboit oscar schindler via a movie, i learned about this man via a movie. History is filled with big names and big stories but i find sometimes the best stories are about the smaller names, names that could be lost in a heartbeat but they did so much to make the world a better, safer more beautiful place just by being in it
This is a brilliant film. A must see for everyone.
amazing interview! can't wait to see the film
This was a brilliant interview from both parties. It would be easy for it to ve very insided.
It's very impressive.
What a wonderful interview.
HBC being awesome (as usual) and discussing a truly heartbreaking, heroic story.
This looks like a truly serious work of filmic art. Thanks for the heads up. Nice one Dan and team! ⭐👍
Loved this film so much what a beautiful story
It was a wonderful introduction video and thrilled watching conversation . Shared by an excellent ( History Hit) channel. About a young man did a humanitarian work during a depressed time of WW2 circumstances to ward's innocent children...i think the movie donated a glorious values to that great man .
2013 Documentary ‘Nicky’s Family’...i highly recommend everybody watch this!
Such an amazing story to tell!
this story was so well done a good film
We have lost a lot of that sort of thinking and acting upon it, in this time of wars and injustice in the world. We now seem to often admire the villans, horribly enough...
A former manager of mine is Nicholas's grandson. He said that the portrayal of his grandparents was fairly close. He said that he hated Esther Rantzen for exposing him so publicly. At his funeral she gave the eulogy and commented on this, but said he eventually forgave her. A cousin shouted out "No he didn't."
I am sad Sir Nicholas felt that way. It was done in a fairly tawdry way, and I understand the embarrassment. However, for all those children he saved it helped them to who he was. I am sorry it could not have happened earlier so that the others who worked with him in Prague could have been publicly honoured during their lives.
Thanks - I always wondered about that. As a tv moment it's deeply affecting, and he seemed to handle it graciously. But as I learnt about him it seemed that he'd never sought recognition and that the tv moment must have felt like a trap... I hope meeting some of the children he'd saved and seeing their children was positive though.
It felt a bit exploitative too. They showed it accurately in the movie.
A fantastic true story. We make a point of going to the cinema to support everyone involved in the telling of such important stories. Some of the train scenes reminded me of what we saw happing in Ukraine shortly after Putin started the all out invasion.
I can't wait to see this movie
A very powerful and emotive piece of cinema, an amazing story, that I doubt would be able to happen now in 2024. We have become a very cold and callous world, instead of helping these people we hear that dreadful phrase "Stop the boats". Thank God for people like Nicholas Winton and his peers and for what they did, risking all to saving others..
Maybe it's happening somewhere else.
And I don't think it was easy for them to pull off, either.
You are confusing a wonderful humanitarian act with illegal economic migration. What in FRANCE is so bad they are fleeing from it?
When asked in a general poll whether they approve of the “stop the boats “ and Rwanda policy of the government on 17% of the British public approve. That me 83% don’t approve, stand with the 83%. This poll was repeated and repeated , sadly that 17% have an inappropriate amount of power but make sure you vote so they don’t retain any power. Even dedicated Conservatives don’t approve, but they can’t be given any votes because they are so weak they can’t stop the 17%.
Wonderful movie. Go and see it.
Infinite blessings on his soul 😇
About time they promoted his story
Wow, this is the first I've heard of this movie but I'm familiar with the story. Definitely need to watch this ASAP!
I've yet to see this but I'm looking forward to seeing it ❤
I'm going to have to wait for this to come available at home, cause sitting through this crying like a baby for most it might not look so great in the theatre...
Fabulous.
Brilliant film; went to see it yesterday.
Isn't HBC wonderful, as always, both in the film and in this interview?
I also really like how Dan Snow conducts these interviews/documentaries and especially how he presents himself; his delivery is especially good (although he should talk a bit less on top of people...)
This is interesting and good ❤
It's truly remarkable what Nicholas Winton did, and we absolutely should praise him. But there's a tragedy in the timing of the release of this film, as we're seeing another act of genocide taking place, which the world has turned a blind eye to.
SO true. Jewish woman and men and so many children were again massacred on 9.10. burned alive, raped and tortured beyond belief. Thank you for mentioning it.
Sadly there will always be another as people don't know how to live good lives. There always going to be a few people like Nicolas but in big numbers, groups, religions there's more who turn a blind eye than willing to help
The resurgence of antisemitism worldwide since Hamas attacked a music festival has been horrible.
@@evansquilt And what would you call 30 thousand dead Palestinian civilians since then?
By Hamas
I’d love to hear from the scriptwriters of ‘One Life’ ...
Well done Sir Nicholas, now lets have a new film about Frank Foley. With the moral lesson that sometimes rules must be bent.
I'm going tomorrow. I was aware of the story and I'll be taking a few hankys and not bothering with mascara for this film.
When is the film released? I haven’t seen it in Hong Kong
Very soon
They should do one on Raoul Wallenberg instead.
Prompt. ❤ Actors 10/10 and sobriety. ☝️😎
I´m a Czech. Not a Jew and my family didn´t suffer so much during the WWII, still thanks to sir Nicholas Winton and proud of him, even if we´re not relatives. I watched the movie few hours ago. Hmmmm, actors were great. Especially Hopkins, Flynn and Bonham-Carter. But the rest is just primary emotional attack. I liked the English and Czech together which worked authentic but the rest not too much. Scene around the last train was too dramatic. In real they just stopped it and sent back. I don´t like one thing especially which occurs in English speaking movies too often. Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic = Prague. I am not anti-Prague. I like many things in Prague but we don´t have only this city in our country.
It's a real story, so if it happened in Prague, they will be showing Prague...
@@aornellas Of course. I just don't like the phrase Czecholovakia/Czechia means only Prague. It occurs in almost all movies. Britain is not only London, USA not only New York, etc.
British values of ‘kindness, decency and respect for other people’ Braverman has none of those values
One Life is a brilliant, extraordinary film.
SPOILER ALERT!
I love how different and real this felt compared to most hero movies. There was no scene where Sir Nicholas Winton delivered an emotional heroic speech to a crowd to get help and donations (given the time period and place they were in, that would’ve been incredibly unrealistic as freedom of speech was limited). “Show, not tell” was achieved beautifully in this film. Instead of everything working out in a night, they showed Nicky, Doreen and Trevor working long hours, racing time day and night.
Instead of Sir Winton saying he loved and cared about kids, they showed it by him photographing kids and doing everything within his power to find foster homes for them. I also loved the scene where he gives kids small pieces of chocolate and how happy the kids look during that scene. It also makes the viewers realise how small things most take for granted, such as chocolate, can be a privilege to some and how fortunate we are to have it.
I also loved how they showed Sir Winton grieving the loss of the children they couldn’t save. The producers didn’t change it to a perfect happy ending where everyone lives. Instead, they mentioned what happened to those who weren’t as fortunate, but the 669 lives they rescued are worth celebrating.
I also appreciate at the end of the movie, they told us what happened to Nicky’s friends. They weren’t just forgotten; instead, they were mentioned without too much screen time, as this movie is about Sir Nicholas Winton and the children he saved.
Why does he keep talking over her? 😢😢😢
She does take a while to get to the point.
Helena without Johnny is so much more amazing.
A wonderful, brave and selfless man. Sadly we now need a modern Winston to rescue the children of Gaza.
Noone rescued the Israeli children from Hamas
Why has no one yet told the story of his own grandfather, the Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón. that he signed thousands of visas to help Jews escape through Spain to embark in Portugal towards America and other countries?
Probably because he helped the Republic of Spain to bring to a safe country the children in war zone regardless of their Faith.
Unfortunately when the fascist dictatorship regime (allied of Hitler and Mussolini) took over, all those good countries but one shipped back the children under the request of the fascist regime. Only one country imposed one condition, the parents of the child wanted their children return and we're alive, well and free. The fate of the children handed over to the Hitler friend is one of the horrors of the postwar in Spain, never told and would never told
England, France, Netherlands, Belgium etc etc etc all in shame but Russia
Russia treated these kids admirably well considering the circumstances (IIWW and its post war misery) they ensured the kids kept their Spanish heritage, culture. Many of them returned to Spain when the democracy was restored, 40 years later while others when they retired and others just stay in Russia
I doubt it would be ever a movie telling the world that the Russians actually saved the children of Spain, the fate of the other children one of the worse crime against humanity in modern era, it is what it is
She talks about her grandfather here and in a documentary. What are you going in about? That's literally what she first talks about.
Helena is so smart and sexy
Heartbreaking that by saving thousands of Jewish children he lost his three-year-old son to the Holocaust
Who?
You know….you know….you know. 😫 The young actress showing her immaturity. She can only aspire to be as good as HBC by being more self aware.
🤔Polynesian?
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I felt like I saw the whole movie from watching the trailer once, including the little twist presumably at the end
That's not the fault of the actors
Dan, you're too tall for the set! 🤣
Has Trevor Chadwick been deliberately forgetting. Did more than any of these characters. Shameful - Doreen wasn’t involved at all with the children as a starting point. Re writing History here !
They had died before 1987 before it came to light.
The movie honoured them very well.
@@Tawadeb Maybe do some fact checking . The current Wintons have a lot to answer for
I have a serviceable mind that is stable and clear.
Loveys v real people.
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@@julierogers1155 Que?
@@desydukuk291 EXACTLY, back at you.
The Jews need such a person now!
Why? Where? How?
@@susivarga7303 Hamas, Gaza the very existence of Israel.
@@mairiconnell6282
Oooooh, sure.
Yeah, the very existence 😄😃😁😉
Send in more US taxpayers love.
Ooo
What's with the ads ? This chic is all over the place about body odor. 😂
" chic" is French for smart or stylish. The slang and insulting word you want is " chick".
Maybe this film will do more than bombing
lol
Best comment I’ve ever seen, well done.
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To Winton ( verb ) or Wintoning which I try to practise is the exact opposite of this film. Despite great acting and writing in the film it would not have pleased him.
Times have changed and the refugees now invading our shores are not going yo assimilate and are 90% economic. Helena would have them here all unvetted. Different rules for different times. Gosh will the male actor let the female one talk?
Refugees and Economic Migrants are completely different things. If you were educated about the issue, you would realise that. They are not "swarming our shores" - these are human beings, not locusts.
Your comments are right-wing, reactionary nonsense. Go and meet some actual refugees and please stop reading the Daily Mail.
Sir Nicholas & Anne Frank would hate the genocide of Palestine 😢
One life…. Like abortion?
Any chance of a film on what may have happened to the current world religions if Emperor Constantine was killed at, or lost, The Battle of the Milvian Bridge?
Ok-I’m totally anti Hollywood-crass, stupid and anti-American. Maybe since this was not an American pos it is an amazing story worth watching and it’s true. There is no one in the world at this time except maybe Donald Trump -like him or not-actually trying to make world problems better. We are a selfish, greed and spoiled society at this point in time. We need to remember and respect the sacrifices made during WWII and be better people not richer.
Trump, seriously???
Gadfly here 🫠. John 15:19. “War and removers of war” are always with us. We are not of this world in Christ. Then who is and for what reason 😶🌫️🥶