The true story of Nicky Winton, who in 1938-9 helped evacuate several hundred at risk children from Czechoslovakia before the Nazis politely ushered them into death camps. (We hear that of the 15,000 sent there, only 200 survived.) Written by Lucinda Coxon (Wild Target) and Nick Drake, based on Winton's daughter's book 'If It's Not Impossible...The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton'. He is played by Anthony Hopkins in 1987 (with Lena Olin as his wife) and Johnny Flynn as the younger version (with Helena Bonham Carter as his mother). The ending, in which he meets some of the survivors, is emotional.
Samantha Sipro is Esther Rantzen. And Betty Maxwell is Marthe Keller! With Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Juliana Moska, Tom Glenister (son of Robert).
Flynn we know - he was Fleming in Operation Mincemeat and was also in Emma. and The Clouds of Sils Maria, Vanity Fair, The Dig.
It was photographed by Zac Nicholson (Misbehaviour, The Death of Stalin, David Copperfield) , edited by Lucia Zucchetti (Their Finest, Boy A, Ratcatcher), music by Volker Bertelmann, production designer Christina Moore. The Czech Republic was played by itself.
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