Episode 69: The Zookeeper’s Wife with Niki Caro and Lesli Linka Glatter
The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast
April 6, 201741m 59s
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Show Notes
Director Niki Caro discusses her film The Zookeeper's Wife with fellow director Lesli Linka Glatter. The film stars Jessica Chastain as Antonina Zabinska, who runs the Warsaw Zoo alongside her husband Jan in 1939. When their peaceful lives are threatened after their zoo is razed during the German occupation of Poland, the Zabinskis find themselves creating elaborate plans to save hundreds of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.