The woman with the 5 elephants

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Movie
Original title The woman with the 5 elephants
Country of production Switzerland ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Vadim Jendreyko
script Vadim Jendreyko
production 3sat , Mira Film, Filmtank, Swiss TV (SF), Second German TV (ZDF)
music Daniel Almada ,
Martin Iannaccone
camera Niels Bolbrinker ,
Stéphane Kuthy
cut Gisela Castronari-Jaensch
occupation

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The Woman with the 5 Elephants is a documentary from Switzerland and Germany from 2009. The director Vadim Jendreyko accompanies Swetlana Geier , who is one of the great contemporary translators of Russian literature into German, on a journey to the places of her early life.

The film had its Swiss premiere on April 26, 2009 at the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon. The film celebrated its German premiere on October 30, 2009 at the DOK Leipzig international film festival . In Austria it was screened for the first time at the Vienna International Film Festival on October 24, 2009. The film started in Germany on January 26, 2010.

Vulture's life and content of the film

Swetlana Geier, a translator of Russian literature into German, was a woman with great charisma. In 2004 she completed her main work, the new translation of Dostoyevsky's five great novels : Crime and Punishment (1994), The Idiot (1996), Evil Spirits (1998), The Karamazov Brothers (2004) and A Green Boy (2006) she herself referred to as her "five elephants".

As a young woman she worked as an interpreter for a German company in occupied Kiev and left Ukraine in 1943 when the German troops had to withdraw. In her adopted home of Germany, she worked as a teacher at the universities of Karlsruhe , Freiburg im Breisgau and Witten / Herdecke, and made her impressive literary work. Only in old age did she return to the places of her early life. These were previously inaccessible to them. Because her father was a victim of Stalinist purges and her childhood friend was killed along with 30,000 other Jews in the Babyn Yar gorge .

Towards the end of her life, Swetlana Geier visited the places of her youth in the Ukraine, which she had not been able to visit before. The film documents this journey. Vadim Jendreyko links the life story of the translator with her rich literary work and tries to find out what makes this impressive woman so fascinating. The result was a film about the transformation of horror into beauty and the protective and saving power of language.

Awards

  • Grand Jury Award at the Silverdocs documentary film festival
  • Nomination, German Film Prize 2010 in the category "Full-Program Documentary Films"
  • Quartz - Swiss Film Award , March 2010 in the category " Best Documentary "
  • Prize at the BAKA Forum 2010, January 2010, awarded the "SRG / SSR idée suisse Prize" ( "for the best educational, societal or science television program for a large audience" )
  • Trieste Film Festival, January 2010, “Alpe Adria Cinema Prize” for the best documentary
  • Trieste Film Festival, January 2010, Audience Award for the best documentary
  • Nomination European Film Academy, October 2009, EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY - Prix ARTE
  • Film Festival DOK Leipzig , October 2009 DEFA award "for an outstanding German documentary film"
  • Visions du Réel in Nyon, April 2009, Prize of the jury of the international competition - Prix de la SRG SSR idee suisse
  • Visions du Réel in Nyon, April 2009, Prize of the Swiss Film Jury - “création” prize for the best Swiss film of the festival in all categories, donated by the Swiss Authors' Association SSA and Suissimage
  • Visions du Réel in Nyon, April 2009 - Special mention by the interfaith jury

literature

  • Erich Klein: defector with five elephants. On Vadim Jendreyko's film portrait of Swetlana Geier. In the literary magazine Wespennest , No. 159, November 2010, page 98.

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the woman with the 5 elephants . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 517 K).
  2. ↑ BAKA Forum ( Memento of the original dated September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bakaforum.net
  3. ^ Trieste Film Festival
  4. ^ Trieste Film Festival
  5. ^ Film festival DOK Leipzig
  6. ^ Waspennest 159: Table of contents and editorial. (PDF file; 0.2 MB), accessed January 13, 2011.