![]() ![]() ![]() From a screenplay by Angela Workman, The Zookeeper’s Wife offers a fairly uncomplicated story, which is seemingly pretty close to that of the original source material. Based on a non-fiction book by Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the story of a couple who bravely put their own lives in harms way to save over 300 Polish Jews from certain death by hiding them in their zoo.ĭirected by Niki Caro, the film chronicles the lives of Antonina (Jessica Chastain) and Jan (Johan Heldenbergh) Żabiński during the German occupation of Warsaw, and the heartbreak they suffered after their modest zoo was commandeered by the occupation army and its animals either shot in cold blood or taken back to Germany to populate Hitler’s own Zoos. ![]() When it comes to films about people doing heroic deeds during WWII, it becomes impossible to review the film without taking into account the real people behind these truly harrowing stories.
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