Risultati di ricerca
30 mar 2017 · Based on the book of the same name by Diane Ackerman, this big-screen adaptation finds Jessica Chastain playing a compassionate woman who helped save hundreds of lives alongside her zookeeper ...
- 1 min
- Ale Russian
- What Were Jan and Antonina Zabinski's Exact Roles at The Warsaw Zoo?
- Were Antonina and Jan Zabinski Atheists?
- Can I Read Antonina Zabinski's Diary?
- Was Antonina and Jan's Home Filled with Animals?
- Was The Damage to The Warsaw Zoo as Bad as What's Seen in The Movie?
- Was Jan Zabinski Really A Member of The Polish Resistance?
- Is Daniel Brühl's Character, Lutz Heck, Based on A Real person?
- Did They Really Hide Their "Guests" in The Zoo's Animal Cages?
- Did German Lutz Heck Really Have A Crush on Antonina?
- How Many People Did Antonina and Jan Zabinski Help?
Prior to and during WWII, Antonina's husband Jan was the director and organizer of the Warsaw Zoo, one of the largest zoos in Europe at the time. He was a zoologist and zootechnician by trade, in addition to being a scientist and an author of books about biology and animal psychology. During the occupation of Poland he also held the title of superi...
Jan was but his wife was not. The real Zookeeper's Wife, Antonina (born Antonina Erdman), was a Russian-born Pole who lost her parents in the early days of the Russian Revolution at the hands of the Bolsheviks. She was raised a strict Catholic and both of her children (Ryszard and Teresa) were baptized. She always wore a religious medallion around ...
Author Diane Ackerman based her book largely on Antonina Zabinski's diary (memoir), which Ackerman discovered during her initial research. Antonina's memoir was published in 1968 under the title Ludzie i zwierzęta (People and Animals). Diane Ackerman's Zookeeper's Wife bookis filled with quotes from Atonina's diary and loose notes, in addition to q...
Yes. A rotating variety of animals could often be found in the Zabinski home, including a wolf cub, a chimpanzee, a lion kitten, a kissing rabbit named Wicek, and a muskrat. Of course, they also had more conventional animals too, including their "sluttish" cat Balbina. -WashingtonPost.com
Yes. In researching The Zookeeper's Wife true story, we learned that the Nazis' September 1939 invasion of Poland and bombing of Warsawleft much of the zoo destroyed. In her book, Diane Ackerman describes the damage to the zoo in grave detail, stating, "The sky broke open and whistling fire hurtled down, cages exploded, moats rained upward, iron ba...
Yes, Jan was a member of the resistance from the beginning. He acted as a biology teacher at an underground university. He used the zoo as a weapons depot and smuggled food into the Warsaw Ghetto and people out. After the war, Antonina learned that her husband Jan, a lieutenant in the resistance, was more deeply involved than she had realized, find...
Yes. The real Lutz Heck was the renowned director of the Berlin Zoo and a prewar colleague of Jan Zabinski. Supported by leading Nazi member Hermann Göring, Heck set out to eliminate animals the Nazis deemed racially degenerate, much like the Nazis' plan for humans. His ultimate goal was to use selective breeding to resurrect extinct purebred anima...
Yes. The Nazi bombing of Warsaw in September 1939 left the zoo severely damaged and many of its cages emptied of animals. The Zookeeper's Wife true story confirms that the Zabinskis used the cages to hide fleeing Jews and partisans. They also hid them in the underground pathways connecting the animal cages. Jan and Antonina even welcomed close to a...
Yes. In The Zookeeper's Wife movie, Nazi Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl) protects the couple in part because he has a crush on Antonina (Jessica Chastain). In real life, Heck, a fellow zoologist, had been a former colleague of Antonina's husband Jan. They had regularly seen Heck at annual meetings of the International Association of Zoo Directors. In The ...
They managed to help approximately 300 men, women and children, both partisans and Jews. Most were seeking refuge as they attempted to flee Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the German-Soviet occupation of Poland. Like in The Zookeeper's Wife movie, Jan personally smuggled some of them out of the Warsaw Ghetto himself and over to the Aryan side. He would pr...
Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English (though published in Polish in 1968), it recounts the true story of how Antonina and her husband, Jan Żabiński, director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved the lives of 300 Jews who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto following the German invasion of Poland on September ...
- Diane Ackerman
- United States
- 2007
- English
The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman. It is based on Diane Ackerman 's non-fiction book of the same name . [6] The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo ...
- Angela Workman
30 mar 2017 · The amount of fiction in the movie is quite surprising considering the real story is already so extraordinary and… well, so Hollywood. Reading Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife or Antonina Żabińska’s People and Animals is the best way to get to know the real story and is definitely worth it.
7 apr 2017 · The extraordinary true story of a Polish couple whose zoo served as a refuge during the German occupation has been translated in the new film The Zookeeper's Wife, starring Jessica Chastain,...
6 apr 2017 · The extraordinary true story of a Polish couple whose zoo served as a refuge during the German occupation has been translated in the new film “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” starring Jessica...
