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 Inspiring
documentary about Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who saved
669 Czech children from Hitler and never told anyone -- including
his wife -- until now. (1 hr. 4 mins.; NR) — BILGE EBIRI
Opens September 18
• Showtimes
& tickets (movietickets.com)
Documentary: Saving Account
Nicholas Winton, 93, says he knew early on what the Nazis intended
to do. "What was unclear to politicians seemed crystal-clear to
me," says the subject of The Power of Good, a documentary
that uses talking heads, archives, and re-creations to illustrate
how Winton saved 669 children in Czechoslovakia before World War
II. Winton, then a young stockbroker, began a British office for
refugee children and forged passports, visas, and adoption papers
to get 7- to 9-year-olds out of German territory and into homes
in Britain and Scotland. "It wasn't getting the children out which
was difficult — it was that no one else tried," says the Englishman
(pictured here in 1939, with a child he saved). And how did he deal
with the Nazis' bureaucratic objections? "I told them politely in
German, Go to hell," Winton says, with a momentary hint of John
Wayne in his voice. At the screening on September 18 at Symphony
Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Winton himself will appear.
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