It is ostensibly to collect garbage for the pigs he now rears in his destroyed zoo, but he comes out with Jews hidden under all that rubbish. ![]() The film only picks up pace when the husband, zookeeper Jan (Johan Heldenbergh), drives into the Warsaw ghetto. Beyond a point, it stops being an affection and is more an affectation, reducing the Holocaust to her teary tribulations. Even at the worst of times, she finds a rabbit or two to cuddle and softly murmur over. ![]() ![]() If you will remember anything after watching this film, it will be Antonina (Jessica Chastain) helping save an elephant calf (with a lot of happy crying) and Antonina walking around with animals on her lap (with a lot of sad smiling).
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