The Zookeeper’s Wife

In 1939, Antonina and Jan Zabinski (Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh) were proud of their laborious and humane efforts as custodians of the Warsaw Zoo. Their lives would be forever changed, however, with the onset of World War II--and they’d spend those tumultuous years shielding hundreds of fugitive Jews in the facility’s basements, while trying to keep Nazi-conscripted zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl) and his suspicions at arm’s length. Niki Caro’s moving treatment of Diane Ackerman’s nonfiction chronicle also stars Iddo Goldberg, Efrat Dor, Timothy Radford. 126 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English; deleted scenes; "making of" documentary; featurette.