The zookeeper's wife
By: a Scion Films production ; produced by Jeff Abberley, Jamie Patricof, Diane Miller Levin, Kim Zubick ; written by Angela Workman ; directed by Niki Card
Contributors: Caro, Niki, 1967- film director; Chastain, Jessica, 1977- actor; Heldenbergh, Johan, 1967- actor; Brühl, Daniel, 1978- actor; Goldberg, Iddo, 1975- actor; Ackerman, Diane, 1948-; Scion Films; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Jews; Zoo keepers; Ethnic relations; Drama; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Rescue
Other titles: Container of (work): Zookeeper's wife (Motion picture); Container of (expression): Zookeeper's wife (Motion picture). Spanish.
Description: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Based on the novel by Diane Ackerman.

Anamorphic wide screen (2.40:1); dual layer.

Bonus features: deleted scenes; The making of "The Zookeeper's wife"; The Zabinski family.

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams ; editor, David Coulson ; cinematographer, Andri J. Parekh.

Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Bruhl, Iddo Goldberg, Shira Haas, Michael McElhatton.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, disturbing images, violence, brief sexuality, nudity and smoking.

DVD.

English or Spanish dialogue; Spanish or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.