Film

The Woman with the 5 Elephants

2010 · 1h 33m · Documentary

IMDb

7.6

Rotten Tomatoes

91%

Metacritic

66

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.

• Vadim JendreykoProducer · Writer · Director
• Thomas TielschProducer
• Hercli BundiProducer
• Stéphane KuthyDirector of Photography
• Niels BolbrinkerDirector of Photography
• Gisela CastronariEditor

Release date

January 9, 2010

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

6

Revenue

$9,256

Genres

Documentary