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March 31, 2017
At the Movies: ‘The Zookeeper's Wife' tells a riveting story
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
"The Zookeeper's Wife," staring Jessica Chastain, is based on the non-fiction book by the naturalist writer Diane Ackerman.
In German-occupied Poland during the darkest days of World War II, a zookeeper and his wife managed to save the lives hundreds of Jewish people, many of whom were detained in the Warsaw Ghetto, by giving them shelter and refuge on the zoo grounds. This extraordinary true story is dramatized rather effectively in director Niki Caro's “The Zookeeper's Wife ,” based on the non-fiction book by the naturalist writer Diane Ackerman.
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