Wonder ProjectBritish stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
An extraordinary story is now the subject of a less-than-extraordinary film that is nevertheless heartwarming. ... An extraordinary story is now the subject of a less-than-extraordinary film that is nevertheless heartwarming.
Rantzen invites him to the show twice, in a This-Is-Your-Life-type surprise, and on the second occasion, secretly contrives for every single other member of the studio audience to be either one of these grownup child refugees or a…
The film is better when it switches to the ’80s and the older Winton (Hopkins), now in his ’70s, living a quiet life in the suburbs with wife Grete (The Reader’s Lena Olin) but still tormented by thoughts of not rescuing more than the 669…
