The Zookeeper's Wife

Name: The Zookeeper's Wife
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 2017-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.319

About The Zookeeper's Wife

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 history war film directed by Niki Caro. Released in March 2017, it runs 126 minutes.

Its themes are biting, holocaust (shoah), zookeeper, and biography. It is adapted from real events.

Jessica Chastain stars as Antonina Żabińska, Daniel Brühl as Lutz Heck, Johan Heldenbergh as Jan Żabiński, and Michael McElhatton as Jerzyk. The screenplay is by Angela Workman. It comes from Czech Anglo Pictures, Electric City Entertainment, and MadRiver Pictures. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Schindler's List, The Pianist, and The Zone of Interest make useful companions to The Zookeeper's Wife, all filed under nazi. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 1,594 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.