The Woman with the 5 Elephants
A Film by Vadim Jendreyko / 2009 / 94 min
The Film
Watch NowAbout the charismatic translator Swetlana Geier. Her new translations of Dostoyevsky's five great novels from Russian into German are her life's work and literary milestones.
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THE WOMEN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS
THE WOMEN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS by Vadim Jendreyko will be broadcast on the night of Sunday, September 04, to Monday, September 5, at 11:45 pm.
Svetlana Geier, born in Kiev in 1923, became an important bridge builder between these cultures by translating Russian literature into German. Her life's work consists of the new translation of the five great novels of Dostoyevsky. The documentary film is dedicated to Svetlana Geier's life and work.
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Storyline
Read MoreOne has to read Dostoyevsky like a treasure-seeker: Jewels are buried in the most inconspicuous places and are often only to be discovered at a second or third reading. He is inexhaustible.
Director's Note
Read MoreIt is a theme that I do not explicitly search for in my work but one which I repeatedly come upon, one behind which the question of my own identity is concealed: Who am I?”
Interview
Read MoreHer translation work, the work on and with languages was for her an existential-, a life expression and not just any work and for her there was no alternative. She had no other home than the home in the language, in the language itself and the languages she worked with.
Interview
Read MoreOn the occasion of the 10th day of Swetlana Geier's death, the director thinks back.