The Woman with the 5 Elephants - Movie review
| Original title: | Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten |
| Country (Year): | Germany, Switzerland (2009) |
| Runtime: | 92min |
| Director: | Vadim Jendreyko |
| Release date: | 19.11.2009 (German Switzerland) |
| 12.05.2010 (Romandie) | |
| Script: | Vadim Jendreyko |
| Photography: | Niels Bolbrinker |
Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten
Vadim Jendreyko's portrait of 86-year-old Swetlana Geier - linguist, translator, bridge builder between the Russian and German cultures - is a great success. Born in Kiev and living in Germany since 1943, Geier travels back to her home town for the first time since then, accompanied by her granddaughter and the filmmaker. But her world belongs to literature, to her new translations of the five great novels of Dostoyevsky ("Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "The Possessed", "The Raw Youth", "The Brothers Karamazov") which she has worked on for over 20 years. These are her elephants, the massive works that have helped Geier through the many challenges fate has dealt her.
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