Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp and Jonathan Pryce co-star in supporting roles.

When 29-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in 1938, just weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed, he encounters families in Prague who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria.

Winton is introduced to Doreen Warriner, head of the Prague office of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC).

He finds his old documents in which he recorded his work for the BCRC, with photos and lists of both the children they wanted to bring to safety and those they successfully saved.

He is considering donating them to a Holocaust museum, but at the same time he wants to draw some attention to the current plight of refugees as he continues working for the underpriviledged, so he decides against it.

[8][9] In September 2020 Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn were announced as being attached to a biopic about Sir Nicholas Winton called ‘’One Life’’.

The website's consensus reads: "Held aloft by outstanding work from a tremendous cast, One Life pays heartwarming tribute to a remarkable humanitarian effort.

"[20] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[21] Ian Freer in Time Out described it as a "remarkable World War II story told conventionally but elevated by a superb Anthony Hopkins".

Cinema operators in the UK therefore mentioned in their advertising for One Life that Nicholas Winton had saved "children from Central Europe".