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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

One Life marketing materials altered following Jewish backlash

Anthony Hopkins in One Life.
Anthony Hopkins in One Life. Photograph: Peter Mountain/See-Saw Films

Marketing materials for the film One Life, which stars Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 children from the Nazis at the start of the second world war, have been amended after criticism over potential Jewish erasure.

There was a backlash to the apparent lack of acknowledgment in the plot synopsis that most of the children taken to England on the Kindertransport trains organised by Winton – a stockbroker distressed by the plight of the young people on a trip to Prague in 1939 – were Jewish.

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