"One Life"

In the organizer's words:

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. We are showing four films to accompany the "Remembering the victims" series of events organized by the Department of Culture.

"One Life"

As a young London stockbroker, Nicholas "Nicky" Winton visits Prague in 1938, where he sees with his own eyes the suffering of the Jewish families who fled Germany after the rise of the Nazis and live there under the worst conditions. He also meets Doreen Warriner, the head of the British Office for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, who inspires him to embark on a mission that is as daring as it is ambitious: He wants to bring as many children as possible to safe England before the borders are closed. He receives support from his German-Jewish mother Babette.

A race against time begins, but also against bureaucracy. Passports have to be obtained and host families in Great Britain have to be found to take in the children. Nicholas was able to bring 669 children to safety. But decades later, he still remembers the children he was unable to save with a sense of guilt. Then he meets some of the people who owe their lives to him on a television show - a meeting that brings his incredible deeds to the public eye and enables him to come to terms with what happened ...