Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The zookeeper's wife / Focus Features presents a Scion Films production ; an Electric City Entertainment, Tollin Productions and Rowe Miller Productions production ; produced by Jeff Abberley, Jamie Patricof, Diane Miller Levin, Kim Zubick ; written by Angela Workman ; directed by Niki Card.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974 -- Drama.

Żabińska, Antonina -- Drama.

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.

Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations -- Drama.

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