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One Life
Kind of almost a great film. It's a by-the-numbers telling of the Nicholas Winton story and it may well make you cry but the script is a bit clunky and the starving ghetto children look like stage school kids in Oxfam coats.
Whitehall was definitely not helpful in getting the child refugees to Britain, plus you could level the same accusations at this film as Schindler's List received - a movie director took the holocaust and tried to make a feel-good story. The lady who played Esther Rantzen was good.
Remember Herbert Lom out of The Pink Panther films? He arrived in Britain in '39, he was allowed entry, his Jewish girlfriend was refused, she later died in a camp. It haunted Lom the rest of his life.