Nicholas Winton saved my father from the Nazis – here’s how One Life betrays him | Matthew Reisz

The new film about the British humanitarian who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children sticks to a feelgood script, and misses the more compelling reality

By the time he died in 2015 at the age of 106, Nicholas Winton was the nearest British equivalent to a secular saint.

His basic story has been told many times. In late 1938, everyone in Prague was braced for an imminent German invasion. When a friend asked Winton to come and witness the developing humanitarian crisis for himself, he set about organising a series of eight Kindertransports, which eventually brought 669 Czech Jewish children to safety in Britain.