Anthony Hopkins on Holocaust drama ‘One Life’: ‘This can happen again at any moment’

In 1988, the BBC television series “That’s Life!” aired a program on Nicholas Winton, a former stockbroker who helped to save 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II and the Holocaust. “It’s hard for us on this side of the Holocaust to imagine that, in 1938, people didn’t know what these events were pushing toward,” Flynn says. Because of the type of person he was, he went there and saw it and he came back to England going, ‘No, these people are starving and dying.’” Johnny Flynn in the movie “One Life.” Winton worked with a team of like-minded people, including Doreen Warriner, Trevor Chadwick and his mother Babette. James Hawes, director of the movie “One Life.” “Nicholas knew that he wasn’t the most important aspect of the operation,” Flynn says. They felt it utterly and honestly.” Anthony Hopkins in the movie “One Life.” Despite Winton’s reluctance to be recognized, “One Life” spotlights the importance of doing good — especially when no one is looking.