"The Wife of the Zoomaster " (2017).
Misunderstood such a warm title, it is actually the zoo version of Schindler's list. The war broke out and the Warsaw Zoo in Poland was also looted. The director and his family applied to raise pigs to provide meat for the German army to live in safety. The couple secretly rescued 300 Jews from hiding in their homes. Some years, some only stayed for a few nights. Among them, only a mother and daughter were killed, and the others survived the war. Twenty years later, the couple were awarded the International Medal of Righteous Men by the Israel Massacre Memorial Museum and the zoo was rebuilt.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name about real people and facts in the Warsaw Zoo during World War II. The author draws materials from the diary translation and other historical materials of the prototype of the incident, and went to the Warsaw Zoo to visit the sons of the principal and his wife and local residents to restore this true story.
I don’t know if it’s the director or the actors. The overall film is a little flat and there is not much animal ink.
The reunion of the family at the end is comforting, and the subtitles are shocking.
It's time to understand the history, and the heart to see is very heavy.
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