"One life". A movie about saved before the Second World Children is more acute in a new war
Summer Nicholas was played by Anthony Hopkins, the young - Johnny Flynn, without inferior to a meter. The limb of the tape is unpredictable and spectacular. 1989. Britain. A cozy English style cottage, a pool that will play a role in the story. Summer Mr. Winton (Anthony Hopkins), under the influence of his wife Gretta (Lena Olin), tries to rake papers to help move to the daughter who is preparing to become a mother. And Greta and Nika, as Nicholas are called relatives - grandparents.
Vinton has a habit of keeping documents for decades: he has worked for many years in charitable organizations and understands the value of such papers. But for him there is a particularly valuable relic-it is a leather portfolio with album of photographs of Jewish white children, which Nicholas exported from Czechoslovakia. Winton decided that perhaps by the half -century anniversary of World War II, some media would be interested in these materials.
However, the editor -in -chief of one of the leading newspapers cut off: "We are not interested in the stories of refugees. " It was probably signs of rejection of emigrants in the crisis of the 1980s and rigid policy Margaret Thatcher. One way or another - Nicholas is angry! He did not really want to attract attention to his person, but here-a matter of principle. The action is transferred in 1938.
Young Winton (Johnny Flynn) in his business service (he is a stock broker) finds himself in Prague and sees Jewish families with children on the streets: after the occupation of the Sudeten region, the Germans forced them to leave their homes. "What will they do in the winter?" Asks Winton at the British Refugee Committee. - "freeze", - they answer him, shrugging.
Winton tries to find out the legal (visas) and the financial side of the question and find out that it is almost impossible - to send at least children to England. But here he connects his active mother in London, who was incomparably played by Helena Bonom Carter ("King says", "Alice in Wonderland") - we will give her the first place in this picture for acting. Nick's mother - Barbara Winton is a mixture of head and tact, aristocracy and mercy, her charisma is difficult to resist.
A young English bureaucrat who wanted to send this case was just crumpled by her arguments and temperament: "A young man, sit down. I came here 30 years ago from Germany. I buried my husband. And raised my son. What always fascinated me in the British - It is nobility, honor and willingness to help others. The latter was said a little flirtatious, but persistently. Helena is great! Of course, the manner British bureaucrat of thirty could not say: "I listen to you . . .
" We put Johnny Flynn, who played young Niki. As he looks at the family, his children - his good eyes literally light up. The girl tells him in a gust of sincerity: "I love to swim!" - "And I adore the pools. " - "And I love skiing. " - "And I". Niki direct and hearty. At the same time he does not forget about the case - under his direct guidance the bureaucratic machine twisted. Here is a "open" episode. Four like -minded people. Niki made his "office" at a table in a cafe.
The question is: "Where will British families come from who can take Jewish children for some time?" He was told: "You have forgotten, the condition for their evacuation - children in Britain should already be waiting for foster families. But these are hundreds, thousands of Jewish children. British families can be cool. " - "They need to be warmed up - you need to connect the press," Winton says. "Ordinary people will respond when they find out what is the matter. Yes, because . . .
I am an ordinary person!". Pause. His colleague: "And I". And finally, the most skeptical: "And I am an ordinary girl!" "Everything we need," Niki summarizes, "is an army of ordinary people. " Big Scene! Wonderful scenario. The movie is difficult to watch without tears. Without tears of pride - that such people exist. He is also shining when you see when children go and wave their farewell to their parents with their plush toys.
In Prague, everyone is anxiously waiting for the Nazi invasion - these moments were reminiscent of the atmosphere that was in Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Therefore, the events of ancient days, reflected in the tape, are perceived today very acute. Only in the third place in the game - Greater Anthony Hopkins. But Gopkins is best conveyed by English humor. For example, his hero met in the 1980s with a former colleague of the Children's Department at the Refugee Committee.
He found out that Niki had recently been released from the Samaritans charitable organization. Hopkins says with an irrelevant ironic intonation: "A summer lady calls me and reports that he wants to commit suicide. " - "You have no more?" - "I want to go to America to my daughter. " - "Go!" - "The doctor said it could kill me" - "But as soon as you remembered that you want to commit suicide?" "And we both start laughing.
" As a result, as the Hopkins hero shares, the lady went to America and was satisfied. And Niki still kicked out of "Samaritans" with the wording: "So it is impossible to communicate with clients. " About a quarter of the movie - TV show "This is like" key moment ", where relatives who lost each other from sight), where Winton was invited to share his history. The Czechoslovakia Nazis destroyed 15,000 Jewish children. . We all have an unpredictable and spectacular, balanced and accurate.