#The house under a crazy star the zookeepers wife how to#
They begin to contemplate how to take care of their friends and neighbors, starting out tentatively at first - having a friend stay with them - and then more boldly. Jan and Antonina are horrified, and know that something must be done. Once Nazi forces arrive to occupy Poland, the Jewish inhabitants are slowly marginalized - first made to wear identification marks, then herded into an overcrowded ghetto, and, eventually, sent to their deaths in concentration camps. At a party, Heck tells the story of having to kill an animal that was acting aggressively, and Antonina winces - a small exchange that tells you almost everything you need to know about what’s to come. Nobody knows the war is about to break out, but Hitler’s star is rising, as is the star of his chief zoologist, Dr. Johan Heldenbergh in The Zookeeper’s Wife. And while Jan is in charge, it’s clear to everyone (including him) that Antonina is the gifted one, able to calm the animals and seemingly commune with them all, no matter the species. It’s 1939, and Antonina lives with her husband Jan ( Johan Heldenbergh) and their young son on the grounds of the Warsaw Zoo, where Jan serves as head zoologist. The Zookeeper’s Wife is based on a true story that spans World War II in Warsaw Directed by Niki Caro ( Whale Rider McFarland, USA), The Zookeeper’s Wife is a simple plea for compassion, beautifully told. It contrasts steady love and constant empathy with the sort of deformed character that would lead men to pen up and eventually exterminate millions of humans simply for being Jewish. The animals are the backdrop to the movie’s theme that all creatures deserve dignity and respect, and that humans can be both the kindest and the cruelest animals of them all. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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