The Zookeepers Wife

DVD

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 their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, the Zabinskis covertly begin working with the Resistance and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and even her children at great risk...

DIRECTOR: Niki Caro

STARS: Daniel Bruhl Iddo Goldberg Jessica Chastain Johan Heldenbergh Michael McElhatton

Poland, 1939, Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain) and her husband are the devoted custodians of the beloved Warsaw Zoo. Then one day, their whole world is rocked to the core--the nazis invade Poland and establish the horrific Warsaw Ghetto. Now in a time chaos and brutality, the brave Zabinski family risk everything by covertly working with the Resistance to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of the ghetto to hide them in the zoo. But this brings them to the attention of the reich's evil new commander (Daniel Bruhl). Frightened, threatened and increasingly in danger, Antonina and her family show that in a world of fear, you can create a place of hope. By their heroic actions, the real-life Zabinski saved the lives of hundreds of Jews.