All this under the nose of Lutz, who is quickly developing his own animal attraction to Antonina. Travelling to the Warsaw ghetto to collect scraps for the pig farm now on the zoo grounds, Jan returns with refugees, some of whom stay for the duration of the war, while others move on to different safe houses. To answer questions about The Zookeepers Wife, please sign up.
With their zoo now devoid of its regular occupants, Antonina and her husband (Johan Heldenbergh, whom you may know from The Broken Circle Breakdown) more or less stumble into a scheme to hide fugitive Jews in the basement and in parts of the zoo itself. The Zookeepers Wife is a 2007 nonfiction book by Diane Ackerman, based on the real experiences of Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski. Reading Group Guides - summaries and discussion questions for books. In Angela Workman’s script, “Hitler’s head zoologist” is reduced to the two-dimensional villain that title implies.īut enough about animals. In a subplot that surely deserves its own movie, German animal researcher Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl) has a plan to resurrect the auroch, a wild cow that went extinct in 1627. Another dozen guests hid inside the Zabinskis. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages.
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsawand the city’s zoo along with it. Article content Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features via AP The Zookeepers Wife: A War Story Questions. A true storyas powerful as Schindler’s Listin which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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