| Classification Number |
Drama |
| Title |
The Zookeeper's wife. [DVD] |
| Physical Description |
sound, color ; |
| Series |
DVD |
| Drama |
| Note |
"R-126057-9" Based on the novel by Diane Ackerman. |
| "Based on the true story from the international best seller"-- Cover. |
| Performer |
Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Bruhl, Iddo Goldberg, Shira Haas, Michael McElhatton. |
| The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński, 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. |
| Classification |
Censorship classification : M. |
| Żabiński, Jan 1897-1974 |
| Żabińska, Antonina |
| Ackerman, Diane 1948- |
| Subject |
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Drama |
| Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Drama |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Drama |
| Zoo keepers -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Drama |
| Biographical films |
| Historical films |
| Film adaptations |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Video recordings for people with visual disabilities |
| Feature films |
| Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations -- Drama |
| Additional Author |
Abberley, Jeff |
| Patricof, Jamie |
| Levin, Diane Miller |
| Zubick, Kim |
| Workman, Angela |
| Caro, Niki, 1967- |
| Chastain, Jessica, 1977- |
| Heldenbergh, Johan, 1967- |
| Brühl, Daniel, 1978- |
| Goldberg, Iddo, 1975- |
| Haas, Shira, 1995- |
| McElhatton, Michael, 1963- |
| Ackerman, Diane, 1948- Zookeepers wife. |
