The Zookeeper's Wife

319 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,720 He's practicing law from a storefront. That's all I know. 320 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,531 I can't get through the gates, Magda. 321 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,009 No one enters the ghetto without a pass. 322 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,600 Listen, 323 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,880 there are people I know, 324 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,400 people trying to help. 325 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,040 They have trucks, they have guns. 326 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,520 And they want to use the zoo as a way station. 327 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,045 What do you mean? 328 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,562 A place to hide Jews, until safe houses can be found for them. 329 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,804 A friend is different, one friend. 330 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,440 But more than one? That's dangerous, Jan. You said it yourself. 331 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,320 They're starving, Antonina. 332 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,970 Two kilometers away. 333 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,564 They are trapped and starving like rats in a cellar. 334 00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:58,681 How many? 335 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,326 Impossible to say. 336 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,280 And for how long? 337 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,761 They'd be our guests until we found them refuge. 338 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,205 A human zoo. 339 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,760 We have to keep the grounds in operation, or we're lost. 340 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:27,964 But whatever it is, whatever we do, we have to hide it in plain sight. 341 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,969 We understand the war office is going to close our zoo. 342 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,210 An unfortunate consequence of the occupation. I'm really sorry. 343 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,640 Well, of course we want to save it if we can. 344 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:25,440 We've spent many years building it. 345 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:26,880 I'm sure you understand. 346 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,600 I do. 347 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,569 What do you propose, Frau Zabinska? 348 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,843 A pig farm, Herr Heck. 349 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,161 A pig farm? 350 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,607 Is this a joke? No. 351 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:45,529 Your men are hungry. 352 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,080 Your officers, they need meat. 353 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,160 Uh, we need to keep the zoo in operation, Lutz. 354 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,720 We'll raise pigs in the pens to feed your men, 355 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,485 and we will save our zoo. 356 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,685 Pigs. Well, they're cheap to farm, of course, but how would you feed them? 357 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,840 We could collect garbage from the ghetto. 358 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,325 Of course, with your permission. 359 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,480 I certainly see your point. 360 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,006 Your zoo's been of value. That's very true. 361 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,326 Your bison was exquisite. A perfect specimen, and a terrible loss. 362 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,000 I've spoken of it to Hermann Goering, 363 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,280 and I'm happy to say that he's agreed with me. 364 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,647 I am to start a breeding program this summer. 365 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,360 You're going to breed bison? 366 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,651 No, that plan has no scope, no ambition. 367 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,882 No, I intend to breed aurochsen from the bison. 368 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,045 Aurochsen. But... 369 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,760 But they have been extinct for 300 years, Lutz. 370 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,560 They're storybook creatures now. 371 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,849 That's exactly the point. I intend to bring them back. 372 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,166 That's not possible. 373 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,330 I didn't know that you thought so little of me, Dr. Zabinski. 374 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,280 I devoted my life to the study of genetics, 375 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,960 and I'm well practiced in the study of animal breeding. 376 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,720 I'm an expert in that field. 377 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,960 And I think I know more than anyone. 378 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,246 Even more than you. 379 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,244 Herr Goering must respect you very much. 380 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,887 Oh, I believe he does, yes. 381 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,890 Well... I think the pigs will work. 382 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,840 I'm sure Goering will be pleased with the idea. 383 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,160 And what an irony, a trayf farm fed by Jewish garbage. 384 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:50,164 And right under their noses. 385 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:53,241 Cheers!