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Film Review - One Life

Film Review - One Life

It's impossible not to be moved, but this film celebrating Nicholas Winton's life and legacy contains significant flaws

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Jan 06, 2024
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In the late 1980s, a retired British stockbroker who rescued 669 Czech-Jewish children from the threat of Nazi Germany appeared on a memorable episode of That’s Life; a BBC series hosted by Esther Rantzen. Here, he was reunited with some of these children and their descendants, who, initially unbeknownst to him, made up the st…

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