March 31st, 2017 (Wide), released as Umut Bahçesi ( Turkey) March 31st, 2017 (Wide), released as Úkryt v zoo ( Czech Republic) March 31st, 2017 (Limited) by Focus Features See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. A heroine like that isn’t of this world, and neither are the stakes.All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,901-4,000)Īll Time International Box Office (Rank 4,701-4,800)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,301-4,400)Īll Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 101-200) She, like her zoo, is perfect beyond plausibility. You can practically imagine the animals gathering to help her get dressed every morning.
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It’s yet another example of the way the movie treats Antonina like some kind of wartime Cinderella. That statement doesn’t really pass the test of logic: Really? Even squirrels? While she’s trying to connect with a young girl who was just raped by German soldiers (Shira Haas), she explains why she loves and trusts animals so much: “You look in their eyes and you know exactly what’s in their hearts.” Maybe Antonina’s preference for the animal kingdom is partly to blame. The drama’s greatest misstep is making the deaths of the zoo’s creatures more horrifying than some of history’s greatest atrocities. “Whale Rider” director Niki Caro and screenwriter Angela Workman (“ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”) deliver a fitfully engaging, conspicuously cleaned-up Holocaust drama that, while well-acted all around, gets bogged down by its insistence on hewing to formula. It’s a story that promises major suspense, which only materializes occasionally. Jan and Antonina resolve to offer sanctuary until their “guests,” as they call them, can be relocated. The Zabinskis formulate a plan to smuggle some of the interned Jews into the zoo - which is swarming with Nazis, who have commandeered the grounds for military use. Not only does he ship Warsaw’s most prized animals back to Berlin - shooting the ones he doesn’t want - he also takes an unhealthy interest in Antonina.Īround that same time, the city’s Jews, including several of the couple’s friends, are being rounded up and forcibly relocated to the Warsaw ghetto.
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.
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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.
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