The Zookeeper's Wife
They gave all they had to save all they could
2017 · 2h 6m · PG-13 Drama, History, War
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Overview
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Director and cast
- Jessica Chastain as Antonina Żabińska
- Daniel Brühl as Lutz Heck
- Johan Heldenbergh as Jan Żabiński
- Michael McElhatton as Jerzyk
- Timothy Radford as Ryszard Żabiński (Younger)
- Efrat Dor as Magda Gross
- Iddo Goldberg as Maurycy Fraenkel
- Shira Haas as Urszula
- Val Maloku as Ryszard Zabinski
- Martha Issová Cast
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