British director James Hawes has described how the cast and crew on his biopic of the man dubbed the “British Schindler” couldn’t hold back the tears as they filmed a momentous scene. One Life is in UK cinemas now,
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00:00 Some of the people that Nicky rescued
00:04 actually do appear as themselves in the That's Life sequence.
00:07 What was it like getting them all back together again?
00:11 It was just the most incredibly emotional day.
00:14 For everybody, actually. Obviously for them,
00:16 because they are feeling their own story.
00:19 One of the kinder, Lord Alfred Dubs, who came to the London premiere,
00:25 described how he couldn't say that he enjoyed the film,
00:28 but he was enormously moved because he was watching his own story
00:32 and he was remembering the moment that he said goodbye
00:35 to his parents on Prague Station.
00:38 But within that scene, to have these people stand up
00:43 and own the fact that Nicky Winton saved their lives,
00:47 the whole crew was sobbing. There was no way of holding it together.
00:50 Really? Were any of the people themselves?
00:53 Yes.
00:54 Even though we didn't see it on the film?
00:56 Well, actually, if you look carefully at the film,
00:59 in the row just behind Tony Hopkins,
01:03 there is a family of three sisters and a brother
01:06 who are children of one of the kinder.
01:09 And you see the emotion.
01:11 One woman particularly is barely keeping it together.
01:14 It's one of the best performances I can ever lay claim to.
01:18 It's a very emotional film.
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