Jan also rescues a young girl, Urszula, who was raped by German soldiers. But if it is played in the daytime, they must hide. When Antonina plays the piano late at night, it means it is safe to come out of hiding. Jews are hidden in the zoo's cages, tunnels, and inside the Żabińskis’ house.
He uses his trucks, secretly, to bring them to the zoo, working with the Underground Army to transport them to safehouses throughout the country. When Jan collects garbage inside the Ghetto, he sees how Jews are starving. Heck, in need of a new site for his experiments in recreating aurochs as a symbol of the Reich, agrees. They seek out Lutz Heck to propose turning the abandoned zoo into a pig farm, to feed the occupying forces, secretly hoping to bring food into the Ghetto. Despite knowing they can be executed for helping Jews, Jan and Antonina decide to use the zoo to hide others and save more lives. The Żabińskis' Jewish friends, Maurycy Fraenkel and his partner Magda Gross, seek a safe place for a friend's insect collection. The Jews of Warsaw are forced into the Ghetto. Later, he returns with Nazi soldiers to shoot the other animals, an act that reveals his hidden brutality. He offers to house their prized animals in Berlin, until after the war.
THE ZOOKEEPERS WIFE ENDING PROFESSIONAL
Lutz Heck, head of the Berlin Zoo and Adolf Hitler's chief zoologist and Jan's professional rival, visits the zoo while Jan is away Heck is now Hitler's chief zoologist and chief of the Warsaw Zoo. Antonina and her son Ryszard barely survive. On 1 September 1939, the aerial bombardment of Warsaw and Invasion of Poland commences. Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of the largest in 1930s Europe, assisted by his wife, Antonina. ( July 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭr. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. It received mixed reviews from critics but a positive response from audiences and grossed $26 million worldwide. The film was released in the United States on 31 March 2017, by Focus Features, and by Universal Pictures International in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2017. The film had its world premiere on 8 March 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, the location of the story, followed by its US premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, on 12 March 2017. It stars Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl and Michael McElhatton. The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II. The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 war drama film directed by Niki Caro, written by Angela Workman and based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book of the same name.
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