German zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl) becomes the zoo’s new overseer. Pretty soon bombs are falling, and the arriving Nazi troops take over the city, including the zoo. Manual labor never looked so pretty.īut this reverie can’t last forever. ![]() Just when it seems like the scenes can’t get any more idyllic, Antonina tracks down her loving husband, gives him a kiss, kicks off her heels and offers to pitch in shoveling hay. At home, her son sleeps alongside a couple of adorable lion cubs. On the eve of the invasion, the Warsaw Zoo is portrayed as a magical Shangri-La - a place where Antonina, outfitted in a flowing floral frock, makes her morning rounds on a bicycle accompanied by a nearly tame camel, trotting at her heels. ![]() ![]() (Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features)īut right off the bat, something seems off about the framing of their story. Johan Heldenbergh stars as Jan Zabinski in the adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s 2007 nonfiction book.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |