The Zookeeper

Nov 22, 2001

1h 48m

★ 6.5

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

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.

Genres

Drama

War

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Cast

Ludovic

Sam Neill

Ankica

Gina McKee

Dragov

Ulrich Thomsen

The Vet

Om Puri

Yeltsov

Marek Vašut

Zioig

Javor Loznica

Slavko

Serdjan Simeonović

Dusan

Arnošt Proschek

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