THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE:
124 minutes
Friday, May 5 – 7pm,
Saturday, May 6 – 4 & 8pm,
Sunday, May 7 – 4 & 8pm,
Wednesday, May 10 – 7pm,
and Thursday, May 11 – 7pm.
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned – and forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, the Zabinskis covertly begin working with the Resistance – and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and her family at great risk.
Insider’s tip: “The Zookeeper’s Wife achieves its grandeur, not through the depiction of grand movements, but through its attentiveness to the shifts and flickers of the soul” (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle). Chelsey Grasso, The Film Stage adds: “There’s something powerful to be read into every action, line, and image. Subtle yet striking, this is a film that is filled with the power of exquisitely executed storytelling.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: “An emotional experience that is straight-ahead but satisfying.”