On February 21, Anthony Hopkins will play Sir Nicholas Winton, also called “the British Schindler”, in “A Life”. A historical drama inspired by a true story, the trailer for which has been revealed.
Do you know the story of Sir Nicholas Winton? However, it was thanks to this English banker and the convoys he organized that 669 Jewish children escaped deportation to concentration camps in Prague, at the dawn of the Second World War. Facts that few people knew about for five decades, until the person concerned mentioned it in a show to which he was invited. In the presence of certain people who owe their lives to him.
It is this true story, as incredible as it is little-known, that is told in Une vie, a historical drama by James Hawes (Black Mirror, Slow Horses) whose French release is scheduled for February 21. And it’s Anthony Hopkins who plays the one we call the “British Schindler” since his acts of bravery, in the sequences set in the 80s.
In the rest of the film, as the trailer shows, it is Johnny Flynn who lends him his features. Revealed by the series Lovesick, the English actor is not his first attempt at true stories and biopics: he was a young Einstein in season 1 of Genius, David Bowie in Stardust and even Ian Fleming in La Ruse, another little-known story set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Great start at the English box office
Thanks to the feature film also starring Helena Bonham Carter and Lena Olin, the name of Sir Nicholas Winton should now speak to you every time he is mentioned. And his true face appears in these images, which announce a film as moving as it is important, as well as a striking new role in the filmography, already very rich in material, of Anthony Hopkins.
In the meantime, the feature film has already given him great success in England, where it had one of the best starts in recent years at the box office, with $4,228,516 for its first weekend of release. Ahead of those of Killers of the Flower Moon (3,078,954), Pentagon Papers (2,983,208) or… The Father (560,691), which earned the actor his second Oscar.