The Zookeeper - Trailer

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Eastern Europe - a city ravished by civil war.

Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. He writes in a journal, poetry which softens the cynical observations of a man living in self imposed penance. Wherever he came from, whoever he was, Ludovic is now alone, silenced by a deed unknown.

As the story opens, the crisis in the city has escalated. The streets are owned by snipers, and the guns in the hills raining shells into the old city. People are fleeing with whatever belongings they can carry.

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 (Om Puri). Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.

Within days the guard disappears, the veterinarian is killed and Ludovic is left to the job alone.

During a lull in the fighting a wounded ten year boy arrives at Ludovic's doorstep. He is Zioig (Javor Loznica), a survivor from a cleansed village, and a hardened child soldier. Ludovic reluctantly nurses Zioig back to health, dreading the consequences of this sanctuary. Soon Zioig returns with a young woman, Ankica (Gina McKee), his mother, and makes it clear that they will stay in the zoo together and Ludovic will help them.

As shells fall within the zoo compound, and feed supplies dwindle, Ludovic is at a loss. Now he must also contend with Dragov (Ulrich Thomsen), a sociopathic captain of a platoon of murderous nationalists searching for Zioig and Ankica.

As the war intensifies, the animals are on the brink of starvation. Ludovic, Zioig and Ankica struggle to keep the animals alive. They discover each other, their secrets, and eventually forgiveness and love.

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[niptuck117]

I clicked on this because I thought it was a trailer for the new Kevin James comedy, and was prepared to scoff at how terrible it looked...then this is shown on my screen, and wow, does it look amazing.

[SannaBreeze]

@Mishel88 That....  was a tiger.

[slatedaman]

wow this actually looks pretty good

[imfromtambunan]

hooray for no talking animals!

[PerryPlanet]

Sam Neill: when he's not fighting raptors. He's saving monkeys.

Damn is he awesome.

[franciscodudeful]

@sunniHussayni Well in my country the former government pulled most of the animals out of the zoos and still a lot of animals got shot and killed during the war but those were only the wild animals. There is relief fund trying to recuperate them but its taking a long time to undo the damage.

[RacerX5034]

The Dinosaur man 

[Gr1mBongmaster]

whoa this looks like a good movie

[sunniHussayni]

well,in gaza we had a zoo once, and it also got striked by missiles,and we had to act the same as in the move,and it was in the news.

[Mishel88]

omg i almost started cryin when the were going to burn the lion!! ;'(