One Life

Toddlerteaplease · 03/01/2024 17:38

Though it did strike me that although he did a lot, he wasn't actually on the ground in Prague, and it was others who put themselves in danger.

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Lincslady53 · 03/01/2024 17:47

I have seen it this afternoon. The lady mentioned at the end, Lady Milena Grenville Baines was a customer of ours when we had our shop. She gave a talk of her experiences at the local Uni a few years ago. At the end, questions were encouraged. First question from one if the students 'What counselling were you offered', she just laughed and said the short answer is none, but then, they didn't expect any. She was also involved with a memorial being placed at Prague station. It is a 1939 train door, the glass has 2 adult handprints on the outside, and 2 child's handprints on the inside. They were made from her, and her grand daughters handprints. If you see the film, you will understand the significance of this. I am usually very pragmatic and it takes a lot to upset me, but I found the film to be the most emotional film I have seen. I would recommend it to anyone.

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upinaballoon · 03/01/2024 19:25

I do remember when he was on the TV and people were invited to stand up if his actions had saved them. I have been looking forward to this film and hope to get to it soon. Nice to read the comments above.

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SleepingStandingUp · 03/01/2024 19:32

Toddlerteaplease · 03/01/2024 16:45

Just been to see this. I'd never heard of Nicholas Winton before this. Fascinating story, i thought it was very well done. I was expecting the film to be a real tear jerker but it wasn't at all. (Or maybe I have a heart of stone)

Just th carvery gets me teary!!

Waiting for kids to go back to school so I can go see it.

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RichardMarxisinnocent · 03/01/2024 19:41

upinaballoon · 03/01/2024 19:25

I do remember when he was on the TV and people were invited to stand up if his actions had saved them. I have been looking forward to this film and hope to get to it soon. Nice to read the comments above.

Yes I remember that episode of That's Life too. A few tears appeared when the first person stood, by the time pretty much all the audience were on the feet I was crying my eyes out.

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Toddlerteaplease · 03/01/2024 19:46

@Lincslady53 just googled her. She sounds like a very interesting lady.

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LlynTegid · 03/01/2024 19:49

I saw the film at the London film festival and agree it is a very well done film, and about a subject that should not be forgotten.

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theconfidenceofwho · 03/01/2024 20:06

upinaballoon · 03/01/2024 19:25

I do remember when he was on the TV and people were invited to stand up if his actions had saved them. I have been looking forward to this film and hope to get to it soon. Nice to read the comments above.

I remember this too - was such a powerful show! Used to love That's Life!

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Musicaltheatremum · 04/01/2024 19:14

I'm on the way back from it now. Brilliant film, very powerful. I cried at lots of it.

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rookiemere · 05/01/2024 17:39

I thought it was a beautiful film, really thought provoking and how lovely to have such a self effacing character as the main hero.

The only bit I found a bit odd was that the actress playing his wife was clearly 20-30 years younger than him, but by the hair and make up presumably meant to be of a similar age. She acted well, but I felt they should have cast someone older.

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DelphiniumBlue · 05/01/2024 17:47

rookiemere · 05/01/2024 17:39

I thought it was a beautiful film, really thought provoking and how lovely to have such a self effacing character as the main hero.

The only bit I found a bit odd was that the actress playing his wife was clearly 20-30 years younger than him, but by the hair and make up presumably meant to be of a similar age. She acted well, but I felt they should have cast someone older.

Yes, I agree about the casting of his wife, I found it really off-putting, she looked like they'd tried to age her and it made her look inauthentic.

But otherwise, I thought it was a good film, I certainly cried, and even DS22 said how moving it was, and I thinking I caught him sniffing! It was a story that needed to be told for the current generation.

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upinaballoon · 05/01/2024 18:00

I went today. Good film - nothing wasted I felt. Anthony Hopkins - nothing else to say, sir. Johnny Flynn - ah, they saw you in 'Mincemeat' and the Mark Rylance film where you wore the hat and put them together and found you a very nice role, Johnny. Romola Garai - how nice to see her anxious and harrassed and looking as if she wasn't wearing a scrap of make-up. Nice to see 'motherly' Helena Bonham-Carter. I have to look for the name of the actor who played the young man in Prague-presumably paying money to someone, a forger or a Nazi, for those three stamps. He was in 'Living' with Bill Nighy I think.

I liked the sentences before and after. They weren't too long and they didn't disappear before I'd read them.

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emmetgirl · 05/01/2024 18:09

I saw it yesterday. A great film. I'm old enough to remember the episode of That's Life that's part of the film. I knew the story but none of the detail. I found the film very moving but at the same time uplifting.

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OwlWeiwei · 05/01/2024 18:16

upinaballoon · 03/01/2024 19:25

I do remember when he was on the TV and people were invited to stand up if his actions had saved them. I have been looking forward to this film and hope to get to it soon. Nice to read the comments above.

So do I. That was one of the most moving pieces of TV I have ever seen. He looked stunned and then overjoyed, It was beautiful.

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Fluffyhoglets · 06/01/2024 23:17

It was a very moving film - showed what determination and humanity can do. And the story around how it all came out was interesting as well.

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TheBloatedMiddle · 07/01/2024 16:25

Lincslady53 · 03/01/2024 17:47

I have seen it this afternoon. The lady mentioned at the end, Lady Milena Grenville Baines was a customer of ours when we had our shop. She gave a talk of her experiences at the local Uni a few years ago. At the end, questions were encouraged. First question from one if the students 'What counselling were you offered', she just laughed and said the short answer is none, but then, they didn't expect any. She was also involved with a memorial being placed at Prague station. It is a 1939 train door, the glass has 2 adult handprints on the outside, and 2 child's handprints on the inside. They were made from her, and her grand daughters handprints. If you see the film, you will understand the significance of this. I am usually very pragmatic and it takes a lot to upset me, but I found the film to be the most emotional film I have seen. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Gosh the handprints story has made me cry.

I saw it this afternoon. I knew the story because I am Jewish and I have a friend who was on the kinder transports. She was aged about 2 and her parents and sister died. I liked the film very much. very understated and all the more powerful because of this I think. I thought Anthony Hopkins was incredible. He just conveyed what a saturation of decades of grief can do.

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TheBloatedMiddle · 07/01/2024 16:32

That is very poor grammar bit hopefully makes sense!

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CornishTiger · 07/01/2024 16:37

If you enjoyed the film look at Grandparents war - specifically the episode with Helena Bonham Carter.

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TheaBrandt · 07/01/2024 16:39

How did you not cry? Don’t think anyone in the cinema wasn’t crying - us included

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Lovewine1975 · 07/01/2024 17:24

Watched this today, what a truly amazing story and the ending had me in floods of tears, very moving

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Theydontknowaboutus · 07/01/2024 17:30

Loved it. I was in floods of tears. I had heard vaguely of the story beforehand but hadn't really understood until I watched the film that many of the children would not have known the detail of how they were saved - and clearly the That's Life episode helped many of the children learn this.

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bookworm14 · 07/01/2024 17:31

I saw it on Friday and cried buckets! It was fairly workmanlike in terms of the filmmaking, but the story just spoke for itself, and Anthony Hopkins was extraordinary. The scenes at the station with parents saying goodbye to their children, knowing they would probably never see them again, were particularly sad.

I remember saying years ago that Nicolas Winton deserved a Hollywood biopic and am glad he has finally got one!