According to the latest news, Niki Caro, the female director of "Northern Wind" and "Whale Rider", will direct a film about the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, "The Zookeeper's Wife". The film is adapted from Diana Akerman's novel of the same name. It has been confirmed that "hardworking sister" Jessica Chastain, Daniel Bruhl ("Inglourious Basterds"), and John Heldenberger will star in it. Angela Workman, the screenwriter of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", is responsible for the script. In addition, Focus Features and Universal Pictures have obtained the distribution rights of the film in North America and Europe respectively. The story of the original novel "The Zookeeper's Wife" takes place in Warsaw during World War II. It was turned into a ruin under the ravages of the German Stuka bombers. The zoo in the city also suffered, and more than half of the animals died. The zoo director Jan and his wife Antonina began to secretly bring Jews into the empty animal pens. The animal cage turned into Noah's Ark. The people hiding in the animal pens were codenamed animals, while the animals were named after people. When night falls, the "tourists" come out of the darkness, eat and chat together; when there is a rare calm, they can also have a piano concert. Jan was active in the secret resistance organization in Poland. He buried ammunition in the elephant's fence and hid explosives in otters, badgers, coyotes, lynxes, etc.