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OF ANIMALS AND MEN – Review by Maitland McDonagh

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Maitland McDonagh documentaries, holocaust, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Lukasz Czajka, of animals and men, Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki, warsaw zoo

Much of the documentary’s narrative will be familiar to viewers who have seen or read about Niki Caro’s 2017 fiction feature The Zookeeper’s Wife, but there’s a gut-punch factor that comes with documentary footage and first-person testimony. And overall Of Animals and Men is deeply, if not necessarily deliberately, intertwined with films that demand that the viewer think hard about his or her relationship with animals.