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The Zookeeper

Name: The Zookeeper
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2001-11-22
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 6.6

★ 6,6 /10 (17 Votes)

2001 EN 108 min

Overview

Jonah Ludovic is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian. Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.

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Release date

22/11/2001

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1.6

One man had the courage to do what was right...

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

108 min

Budget

$6,000,000

Sam Neill

Ludovic

Gina McKee

Ankica

Ulrich Thomsen

Dragov

Om Puri

The Vet

Marek Vašut

Yeltsov

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Javor Loznica

Zioig

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Serdjan Simeonović

Slavko

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Arnošt Proschek

Dusan

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ZOOKEEPER, THE THE ZOOKEEPER , Denmark/UK/Czech Rep./Netherlands, 2001, MPAA Rating : N/A THE ZOOKEEPER is an unjustly overlooked film about bitter regret and unexpected redemption told in the starkest possible terms. Released in 2001, it features a towering performance by Sam Neill in the title role as Ludovic, former Communist party true believer now tending to the municipal zoo in an unnamed war-torn eastern European country suffering the anarchy following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. The self-imposed solitude of his life becomes …

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