One Life movie review: If you don’t cry at this beautiful tribute you need medical help By God this is a superb performance from Sir Anthony Hopkins, An extraordinary story is now the subject of a less-than-extraordinary film that is nevertheless heartwarming., 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 predominantly Jewish 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 , The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Hopkins, who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis , Anthony Hopkins stars as Sir Nicholas Winton, a young London broker who rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in World War II.…, The film is better when it switches to the ’80s and the older Winton (Hopkins), now in his ’70s, living a quiet life in the suburbs with wife Grete (The Reader’s Lena Olin) but still .