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Jan, for inexplicable reasons, actually becomes terribly jealous of what he has to know is a lie. She is also the one who has to convince Nazi zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl) that she has feelings for him so that he doesn't realize what the family is doing. It is she who stays home and makes sure everyone is quiet during the day when Nazis are around. He is the one who takes the lead and is regularly at the center of the film.īy no means does Antonina have it easy. In some of the most intense sequences in the film, Jan goes out and brings Jewish people back to the zoo. He may initially be skeptical about hiding one Jewish person but then rapidly proposes that the family hide many Jewish people at the zoo.
IN THE ZOOKEEPERS WIFE DID THE ZOO REOPEN AGAIN AT THE END MOVIE
Additionally, for a movie called "The Zookeeper's Wife," a surprising amount of the story doesn't focus on Antonina, but rather Jan. Too much is glossed over causing the audience to repeatedly be pulled out of the tale as they question the logic behind any of it. The movie fails to build a strong emotional connection from the audience to Antonina and Jan. Starting just prior to the war and ending a few years after, this tale of a World War II Polish family who decides to do the right thing and hide Jews at their zoo could easily find itself a tearjerker. The destruction wrought upon the zoo is something palpably felt in the audience, but it is a weight and an upset that the film never succeeds in reaching again. To this point in Zookeeper's Wife, the film has given almost equal weight to the animals as it has Antonina her husband, Jan (Johan Heldenbergh) and their son, Ryszard (played first by Timothy Radford and later in the film by Val Maloku). The impacts of the bombs are felt, not just through the bass, but as animals lie there, forever gone.
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Bombs fall, some animals are killed, others are set free, and the place is severely damaged. The audience sees this moment as it affects Antonina Żabińska (Jessica Chastain), her family, and their zoo. The most affecting moment in Niki Caro's The Zookeeper's Wife occurs early on, as the Nazis invade Poland in September 1939.