The Woman with the 5 Elephants

The Woman with the 5 Elephants

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 9, 2010

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

66%

Original Title

Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten

Production Companies

ZDF, 3sat, Filmtank, Mira Film, SRF

Director

Vadim Jendreyko

Revenue

$9,256

Description

Documentary about Svetlana Geier, a Ukranian who has translated the great works of Dostoyevsky into German. 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.