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One life / director, James Hawes.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 3863 | VVS FilmsLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Montreal, QC : VVS Films, [2024]Description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23/eng/20240404
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .O54 2024
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Zac Nicholson ; editor, Lucia Zucchetti ; music by Volker Bertelmann.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter.Summary: Tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker, who, along with Trevor Chadwick, and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves Fiction DVDA ONE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 10/01/2024 31906001280388

Originally released as a motion picture in 2023.

Home use only.

Wide screen.

Director of photography, Zac Nicholson ; editor, Lucia Zucchetti ; music by Volker Bertelmann.

Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter.

Tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker, who, along with Trevor Chadwick, and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. 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.

Rating: PG; for thematic material, smoking and some language.

DVD, wide screen.

English or French dialogue; English subtitles.

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