RED TAPE ROW OVER RESCUE HERO MOVIE

Crew has to create UK station in Prague

- ASHLEIGH RAINBIRD

A BIG-BUDGET movie shoot showing children rescued from the Holocaust arriving in Britain by train had to be diverted from London to Prague.

Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter star in One Life, about Sir Nicholas Winton's rescue of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s.

The Kindertransport train arrived at London Liverpool Street Station, where a statue of the operation now stands.

But movie bosses were forced to film scenes in Prague instead, because of the pandemic. Director James Hawes said: "All the train stuff is in Prague, sadly Liverpool Street wouldn't give us permission. So we found a Czech station and then used effects to make it look like Liverpool Street."