After reading our Zookeeper’s Wife review and my interview, I am hoping that if you have seen the film this weekend that you enjoyed it! Here is a list of our favorite lines from the movie. We loved creating this list of The Zookeeper’s Wife Movie Quotes.
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Jessica Chastain stars as Antonina Zabinski in director Niki Caro’s THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Anne Marie Fox / Focus Features
The Zookeeper’s Wife Movie Quotes
“What do you do when your husband is playing with his monkeys?”
“I help him.” –Antonina Zabinski
“I am a zoologist, not a politician.” –Jan Zabinski (played by Johan Heldenbergh)
“She is breathing! She is beautiful!” –Antonina
“I don’t want to run away and carry Keesh around like a frightened cat.” –Antonina
“Peoples first instinct is always to run…Please I want to stay here in Warsaw.” –Antonina
“Your zoo has been liquidated for the war effort.” –Lutz Heck (played by Daniel Brühl)
“I can take your prize animals to Germany.” –Lutz
“We can save your animals together.” –Lutz
“Why didn’t he wait to speak to me?” –Jan
“We are going to go where they want us to go. And when the war is over we come back.” –Jan
“We can’t even give her a glass of water, we get shot if we give her a glass of water.” Antonina
“Two kilometers away they are starving like rats in a cellar. They’d be our guest until they find refuge.” –Jan
“A pig farm. We need to keep this operational.” –Antonina
“I am going to start a breeding program.” –Lutz
“Urszula means ‘She Bear’. Did yo uknow that? –Antonina
“We have two doors. I will give you papers that will give you an access both ways.” –helper (Need to find name)
“You have always been good to me. You and your husband. And I will be good to you. Be careful.” –Cook
“And here you are fooling that man?” –Jan
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh of “The Broken Circle Breakdown”), have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned – and forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl of “Captain America: Civil War”). To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance – and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and even her children at great risk.