6/2/2023 0 Comments Story of the zookeepers wife![]() ![]() ![]() Uncomfortable with humans but gifted with animals, Antonina has a tenderness that masks her strength. Played by Jessica Chastain, Antonina is an unlikely heroine for a Holocaust film. Ursula is one of the hundreds of Jewish people who hides in the animal cages until Antonina and her husband can send them somewhere safer. ![]() Antonina had converted her husband’s zoo into a safe house for Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Her doe eyes speak only fear.Īntonina, the zookeeper’s wife, kneels near her, reassuring her and attending to the girl’s wounds. After suffering abuse at the hands of two Nazi soldiers, the Jewish girl cannot speak. Ursula, a bony 14-year-old girl, crouches against the farthest corner of the zoo cage, crossing her hands in front of her chest.
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