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22/11/2001 Drama, War 1h 48m
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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.

  1. Ralph Ziman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Sam Neill

    Ludovic

  2. Gina McKee

    Ankica

  3. Ulrich Thomsen

    Dragov

  4. Om Puri

    The Vet

  5. Marek Vašut

    Yeltsov

  6. Javor Loznica

    Zioig

  7. Serdjan Simeonović

    Slavko

  8. Arnošt Proschek

    Dusan

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Reviews

A review by kosspgd
Written by kosspgd on 2024-01-17
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 ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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