“White Bird” REVIEW
WWII Review
Focus Features is bringing to light a sensitive matter in the latest Zookeeper’s Wife. Jessica Chastain portrays a real life Polish woman, Antonina Zabinski, who lives a the Warsaw Zoo with hundreds of animals and her husband Jan (Johan Heldenbergh). Now as the German’s invade Warsaw and Antonina fears for her life as well as that of her animals and family, she is caught between rescuing both the animals as well as hiding hundreds of Jews in the grounds of the now abandoned zoo.
At over 2 hour run time, The Zookeeper’s Wife will bring you into the war-torn region of Poland as never before seen through the eyes of the camera. It’s a movie that will have you cheering the courageous heroism of the woman who rescued over 300 people and hundreds of animals from the clutches of World War II.
The Zookeeper’s Wife came out January 31, 2017 to limited theaters and currently has brought in over 4 million domestically at the box office, expanding its theatrical release April 7.
See it in a theater near you.