A-B-C Midweek Bitesize: One Life
A film recommendation for you
Save one life and you save the world
Hello and welcome to this week’s A-B-C Midweek Bitesize. It’s a short one — a film recommendation.
Go and see One Life.
It’s the true story of Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old London stockbroker whose efforts helped to save hundreds and hundreds of Jewish children to escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939.
It is one of the most powerful, emotional films I’ve ever seen. It moves between scenes of the young Winton played by Flynn and the much older man in the 1980s, played by Hopkins, when his incredible achievements are at last recognised thanks to the BBC television programme That’s Life.
The acting is incredible and at times it is hard to tell that Hopkins is acting; he is mesmerising.
The film takes the true events and organises them in a perfect narrative sequence ensuring there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
Masterful storytelling all round. As writers of narrative non-fiction we can learn a lot.