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Tom Bryant

Children saved from Nazis by British hero approached by filmmakers for 'incredible story'

Children saved from the Nazis by a British humanitarian have been invited to recreate an emotional piece of TV history for a film.

Sir Anthony Hopkins will play Sir Nicholas Winton in One Life, the story of how Sir Nicholas rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia and brought them to Britain in 1938-39.

The tear-jerking scenes when he came face to face with some of the refugees in a 1988 episode of That’s Life have gone down in television folklore.

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