In the upcoming film, One Life, Anthony Hopkins plays Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who, in the 1930s, helped to facilitate the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, in a operation that was known as Czech Kindertransport.  Winton’s action were largely unknown to the general public for 50 years, until he was invited to appear on a television program This Is Your Life.  It was then that he met many of the now-grown children whose lives he had saved.

Casting Anthony Hopkins, who has played his share of villains but who is always at his best when playing kindly men who try to do the right thing, as Nichols Winton seems like the perfect decision for the film version of this beautiful story.  Here’s the trailer.