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THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE

By Niki CARO

FOCUS FEATURES (UK) - as DISTR Theatrical

Drama - Completed 2015

After the Germans invade Poland in 1939, a zookeeper, his wife, and their child use their Warsaw Zoo to hide nearly 300 Jews and help them escape the Warsaw Ghetto.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Niki CARO
- Writer(s)
- Angela WORKMAN (BASED ON THE BOOK BY DIANE ACKERMAN)
- Cast
- Jessica CHASTAIN, Daniel BRUHL , Johan HELDENBERGH
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-700C-0000-8-0000-0000-D
- EIDR
- 10.5240/0FBB-D021-A8F4-1CE3-7C9C-U
- Producer(s)
- Jeff ABERLEY, Diane LEVIN, Jamie PATRICOF, Michael TOMLIN, Robbie TOMLIN, Kim ZUBICK
- Synopsis
- Based on the New York Times best seller, THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE is the moving, true story of a husband and wife's compassion and incredible will to save hundreds of Jews during WWII. After the brutal Nazi invasion of Poland levels Warsaw and ravages the city zoo, zookeeper Jan Zabinski and his wife Antonina are left to salvage what’s left of the grounds and the few surviving animals. As the Nazis begin to deport Jews to certain annihilation, Jan and Antonina risk it all to smuggle as many victims as possible into their zoo. Against all odds, Antonina and the sheltered Jews manage to restore each other's faith in humanity and together plot a harrowing escape to freedom.