If you were moved by the moving drama Une vie, you will love seeing this exciting portrait of a woman in the cinema!

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Last February, moviegoers were moved to discover in the drama “Life” the true and simply touching story of Nicholas Winton, a London banker who saved 669 Jewish children before the outbreak of World War II. This fall, another person’s tumultuous journey was revealed in a big-screen biopic bearing his name: Lee Miller.

Former Vogue model and Man Ray muse Lee Miller, played here by the formidable Kate Winslet, became one of the first female war photographers. After going to the front and ready to do anything to witness the horrors of war, he changed the world view thanks to his courage and rejection of conventions. Discover his story in theaters on October 9.

Two incredible fortunes, but unknown for a long time…

Born around the same time, Nicholas Winton and Lee Miller had already crossed paths in London, where they both settled for more or less long periods of their lives…

Nicknamed “The British Schindler” in reference to Oskar Schindler, whose story was brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg, Nicholas Winton does everything he can after traveling to Prague in 1938 to save hundreds of children who were threatened with death in concentration camps. . Risking his life, he organized convoys to England, where 669 Jewish children found refuge.

In the film A Life, he is presented as a quiet and reserved person who seems to follow the rules scrupulously, even if that means sometimes insisting that the administration expedite his requests. Lee Miller doesn’t care about rules and especially social conventions. An eccentric, bold and free-spirited American photographer fascinates with his unwavering determination.

And if everything is against them, these two people actually have a common desire: to raise awareness and warn the world, each on their own level, about the atrocities of war.

Today, they are celebrated in cinemas with two moving portraits, allowing their story to be told to as many people as possible. Indeed, they spent the post-war years in anonymity: her photographs kept in an attic for Lee Miller, an album of memories carefully preserved in Nicholas Winton’s attache… all traces of their extraordinary fate remained unknown. the general public for a long time.

If Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet shared the poster of the thriller The King’s Fools in 2006, now each independently, in Une vie and Lee Miller, respectively, paid tribute to two personalities who will not fail to move the audience.

The Lee Miller-directed Ellen Kuras hits theaters on October 9.