86 years, 107 films, 2 Oscars: this legendary actor returns in a film inspired by a little-known true story

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 World War II. Facts about which few knew for five decades, until the interested person mentioned it in the program in which he was invited. In the presence of certain people who owe their lives to him.

This true story, as incredible as it is little-known, is told in Une vie, the historical drama by James Hawes (Black Mirror, Slow Horses), which is scheduled for a French release on February 21. And it’s Anthony Hopkins who plays the one we call “British Schindler” Since his manhood, in the sections set in the 80s.

For the rest of the movie, as the trailer shows, it’s Johnny Flynn who gives it his features. The English actor revealed by the series Lovesick is not his first attempt at real stories and biographies: he was Young Einstein in the first season of Genius, David Bowie in Stardust and even Ian Fleming in La Ruse, another lesser-known story against which happens. in the background of the Second World War.

A great start at the UK box office

Thanks to the feature film, which also stars Helena Bonham Carter and Lena Olin, Sir Nicholas Winton’s name should speak to you every time he’s mentioned. And his true colors emerge in these images, which announce a film as moving as it is important, as well as a surprising new role in Anthony Hopkins’ already very rich filmography.

Meanwhile, the feature film has already given it a run for its money in England, where it got off to one of its best box-office starts in recent years, with $4,228,516 in its opening weekend. ahead of Killers of the Flower Moon (3,078,954), Pentagon Papers (2,983,208) or… The Father (560,691), which brought the actor his second Oscar.