Lakeshore Records has released One Life—
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with music by Oscar and BAFTA winning composer Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet On The Western Front), digitally today, January 5. Led by Bertelmann’s distinctive piano, the poignant orchestral score enhances the haunting drama of the film based on the life of Nicholas Winton. The See-Saw Films production directed by James Hawes and starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter is playing in UK theaters now.
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, along with Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II, Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades
Notes Bertelmann: “To work on a film like One Life is difficult because it needs emotions and warmth while at the same time it should not be too cloying. I tried to find themes that were reflecting that warmth and that I could express with different instrumentation.
Collaborating with the director James Hawes was a huge pleasure because he gave me a lot of freedom in the creative process of the composition. For me it was clear that it should be a classic score with strings and piano—the recordings with the London Contemporary Orchestra went very well.”
Purchase/ Stream: https://lnk.to/One-Life
Track List
- Photographs
- Let Go & Remembrance
- Children’s Shipment
- Getting By
- Persuasion
- Change of Plan
- Should I Jump In?
- Looking For Funds
- Children Need To Be Saved
- Time Is Running Out
- Children’s Goodbye
- Arrival
- Memories
- Be Careful
- Largest Transport
- Anything You Can Do
- Document Control
- Urgent Case
- Burning Documents
- Radio Car 1
- Last Train
- A Very Important Story
- Revelations
- Notes of Thanks
- Finale
- One Life End Credits
ABOUT VOLKER BERTELMANN
Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023 he won a BAFTA and Oscar in the Best Original Score category for All Quiet on the Western Front. His score for Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran was nominated for multiple awards, including Oscar for Best Original Score, Golden Globe for Best Original Score, and Best Film Music at the BAFTAs. He has provided music for several leading films and television series, including the score for Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, Stowaway, the episode “Red Book” from Black Mirror, and the 2020 film Ammonite, co-composed with O’Halloran, which received a spot on the Academy Awards short list for Best Original Score.
In 2022, he scored War Sailor, an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. He collaborated with director Edward Berger again in 2023, scoring the film Conclave.
A uniquely innovative pianist, who in his solo work goes by the name Hauschka, Bertelmann has worked with, among others. the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was the artist in residence, and the Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn. In 2018, he accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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