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Zookeeper's Wife, The
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A heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, factually based, inspirational, well-acted, intense, 124-minute film based on Diane Ackerman's bestselling 2007 novel and adapted from Antonina ?abi?ska's unpublished diary in which compassionate, heroic, and brave Polish zoologist Dr. Jan ?abi?ski (Johan Heldenbergh) and his wife (Jessica Chastain), who have a young son (Timothy Radford/Val Maloku), decide they were going to try and save more than 300 hundred Jews (Iddo Goldberg, Shira Haas, Martha Issová, et al.) with the help of some of their employees (Michael McElhatton, et al.) and resistance fighters by opening a pig farm at the zoo, by sneaking the Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto using a garbage truck, and then by sheltering their "guests" right under the noses of smitten Nazi officer Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl).and his troops between 1939 and 1945 during WWII.

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Year:
2017
Rating:
 PG-13
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