
Academy Award-nominated Jessica Chastain stars in this stirring film as Antonina Zabinska, the title character in a true story of husband-and-wife team that run the Warsaw Zoo during the Nazi occupation. Working secretly with the Resistance throughout the Holocaust, the zookeepers sneak Jews out of the ghetto, and give them refuge in tunnels beneath their home, saving hundreds from extermination.
Filmmaker Bio: Niki Caro was born in 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. She is a director and writer, known for Whale Rider (2002), North Country (2005), and McFarland, USA (2015).