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Behind the Aegis

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Fri Sep 11, 2020, 02:55 PM Sep 2020

(Jewish Group) Film about Nicholas Winton, rescuer of children from the Nazis, stars Anthony Hopkins

A feature film about the life of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is in production with Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins in the lead role.

“One Life” has Hopkins playing an older Winton, Deadline Hollywood reported. British actor Johnny Flynn portrays the young Winton.

Winton, who is nicknamed “the British Schindler,” died in 2015 at the age of 106.

The baptized son of Jewish parents, Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker when he arrived in Prague in December 1938. He was planning to go on a skiing holiday in Switzerland, but changed his plans when he heard about the refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia, which had just been occupied by the Nazis. In the following nine months, he organized eight trains that carried children, the vast majority of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Britain.

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(Jewish Group) Film about Nicholas Winton, rescuer of children from the Nazis, stars Anthony Hopkins (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Sep 2020 OP
I saw a clip from TV about a year ago where they had COLGATE4 Sep 2020 #1

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1. I saw a clip from TV about a year ago where they had
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 04:25 PM
Sep 2020

him in a British TV studio. The audience was, unbeknownst to him, all adults who had been some of the children he had saved from the Nazis. A wonderful thing to see. Mr. Winton was, as always very self-effacing about the whole thing. He was a real mensch.

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