The Woman with the 5 Elephants ( Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten ) ( La mujer con los 5 elefantes (The Woman with the Five Elephants) )

The Woman with the 5 Elephants (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Original Title: Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten
Alternate Title: La mujer con los 5 elefantes (The Woman with the Five Elephants)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Russian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min + 26 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Vadim Jendreyko

Written By:
Vadim Jendreyko

Actors:
Svetlana Geier ..... Herself
Anna Götte ..... Herself
Hannelore Hagen ..... Herself
Jürgen Klodt ..... Himself
Johannes Geier ..... Himself (archive footage)
Sofiya Nikolaevna Mikhaylova ..... Himself (archive footage)
Fyodor Ivanovich Mikhaylov ..... Himself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Her new translations of Dostoyevsky's five great novels, known as the 'five elephants', are her life's work and literary milestones. The 85-year-old woman takes her first trip since the war back to the places of her childhood in the Ukraine, accompanied by the filmmaker Vadim Jendreyko. The film interweaves the story of Swetlana Geier's life with her literary work and traces the secret of this inexhaustible mediator of language.

First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 15 December, 2010.

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