One Life: Anthony Hopkins is stirring as the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 600 Jewish

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“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire,” runs the famous line in the Talmud – which found its way to millions of new ears around the world when it was quoted by Ben Kingsley in the closing scenes of Schindler’s List. This handsome and soberly stirring period piece centres on another saver of souls in wartime Europe: Nicholas Winton, a Hampstead-born stockbroker who travelled to Czechoslovakia in 1938 from where he helped spirit more than 600 children, most of them Jewish, to British fost