Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten
The Woman With The 5 Elephants
La femme aux 5 éléphants
La donna con i 5 elefanti
Switzerland / Germany, April 2009
FILM,
Documentary,
94 min.
- directed by
- Vadim Jendreyko
- Written by
- Vadim Jendreyko
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.5elefanten.ch
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.
credits
- World Premiere
- April 2009
- Original Version
- Russian, German (french/german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 94 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-0B2B-0000-P-0000-0000-0
- Production
- Mira Film, Filmtank GmbH, 3sat, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- Hercli Bundi, Vadim Jendreyko
- directed by
- Vadim Jendreyko
- Written by
- Vadim Jendreyko
- Cinematography
- Stéphane Kuthy
- Editing
- Gisela Castronari
- Sound Editing
- Daniel Almada
- Sound Design
- Daniel Almada
- Re-Recording Mix
- Florian Beck
- Music
- Daniel Almada, Martin Iannaccone
- Location Sound Mix
- Patrick Becker
- Compositing
- Paul Avondet
- Lighting Design
- Stéphane Kuthy
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Nour Films
Worldwide Distribution
- Austria
-
Stadtkino - Filmverleih
Distribution
Release date: 01.05.2010 - France
-
Nour Films
Distribution
Release date: 13.10.2010 - Germany
-
Real Fiction Filmverleih
Distribution
Release date: 28.01.2010 - Japan
- Uplink Film Distribution
- Switzerland
- Cineworx GmbH Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Yamagata City, Yamagata Int. Documentary Film Festival, Award of Excellence 2011 (Winner)
- Yamagata City, Yamagata Int. Documentary Film Festival, Citizen's Prize 2011 (Winner)
- Taipei, TIDF Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Jury's Special Mention 2010 (Winner)
- Trieste, Trieste Film Festival, Alpe Adria Cinema Award for the Best Documentary Film 2010 (Winner)
- Washington, Silverdocs Documentary Festival AFI/Discovery Channel, Sterling Award for Best World Feature 2010 (Winner)
- Trieste, Trieste Film Festival, Audience Award documentary film competition 2010 (Winner)
- Hollywood, Moondance International Film Festival, Atlantis Award 2010 (Winner)
- Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film 2010 (Winner)
- Montreal, RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Prix Image 2010 (Winner)
- Filmfestival Listapad, Grand Prix for the Best Film 2010 (Winner)
- Bozner Filmtage, Publikumspreis 2010 (Winner)
- Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minneapolis/St. Paul Int. Film Festival, Audience Prize 2010 (Winner)
- Leipzig, Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, DEFA-Förderpreis 2009 (Winner)
- Nyon, Visions du Réel, Prix SRG SSR idée suisse 2009 (Winner)
- Nyon, Visions du Réel, Mention spéciale du Jury interreligieux 2009 (Winner)
- Nyon, Visions du Réel, Grand Prix SSA/Suissimage pour le meilleur long métrage suisse 2009 (Winner)
- Luzern, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award «Quartz», Best Documentary Film 2010 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
14e Festival du cinéma documentaire Filmer à tout prix
11.11.2011 - 16.11.2011 -
Yamagata City, 12th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
06.10.2011 - 13.10.2011 -
DMZ DOCS Korean International Documentary Festival
22.09.2011 - 28.09.2011 -
15° FIDOCS Festival Internacional Documentales Santiago de Chile
20.06.2011 - 26.06.2011 -
Open City London Documentary Festival
16.06.2011 - 19.06.2011 -
Montevideo, 29° Festival Cinematografico internacional del Uruguay Montevideo
18.04.2011 - 30.04.2011 -
Cleveland, Cleveland International Film Festival
24.03.2011 - 03.04.2011 -
13th Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival
23.03.2011 - 30.03.2011 -
Kunming, 5th Yunnan Multiculture Visual Festival Kunming
21.03.2011 - 27.03.2011 -
Havana, International Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema
02.12.2010 - 12.12.2010
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Tallinn, 14th Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn
19.11.2010 - 05.12.2010 -
Montreal, 13e RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal
10.11.2010 - 21.11.2010 -
World Film Festival of Bangkok
05.11.2010 - 14.11.2010 -
Filmfestival Listapad
05.11.2010 - 12.11.2010 -
Taipei, 7th Taiwan International Documentary Festival
22.10.2010 - 31.10.2010 -
Sao Paulo, 34a Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo
22.10.2010 - 04.11.2010 -
San Francisco, 15th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco
22.10.2010 - 28.10.2010 -
Lisbon, doclisboa 2010 VIII Festival internacional de cinema documental Lisboa
14.10.2010 - 24.10.2010 -
Hollywood, Moondance International Film Festival
24.09.2010 - 26.09.2010 -
Bad Aibling, Nonfiktionale Festival des dokumentarischen Films
23.09.2010 - 26.09.2010 -
Espoo, Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
20.08.2010 - 29.08.2010 -
Santiago Festival internacional de Cine
17.08.2010 - 23.08.2010 -
9. Dokufest International Documentary and Shortfilm Festival Prizren
31.07.2010 - 07.08.2010 -
Melbourne, 59th Melbourne International Film Festival
22.07.2010 - 08.08.2010 -
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
11.07.2010 - 18.07.2010 -
Auckland, New Zealand International Film Festival
08.07.2010 - 25.07.2010 -
Jerusalem Film Festival
08.07.2010 - 17.07.2010 -
Washington, 8th Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Documentary Film Festival
21.06.2010 - 27.06.2010 -
Moscow, 32nd Moscow International Film Festival
17.06.2010 - 26.06.2010 -
Warsaw, 7th Planete Doc Review Warsaw
07.05.2010 - 16.05.2010 -
Toronto, 17th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto
29.04.2010 - 09.05.2010 -
Minneapolis/St. Paul, 28th Minneapolis-St.Paul International Film Festival
15.04.2010 - 29.04.2010 -
24. Bozner Filmtage
14.04.2010 - 18.04.2010 -
Belgrad, Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
13.04.2010 - 20.04.2010 -
Buenos Aires, 12° Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente
07.04.2010 - 18.04.2010 -
Bradford International Film Festival
18.03.2010 - 28.03.2010 -
Gothenburg, 33rd Göteborg International Film Festival
29.01.2010 - 08.02.2010 -
Rotterdam, 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam
27.01.2010 - 07.02.2010 -
Helsinki, DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
26.01.2010 - 31.01.2010 -
Trieste, 21st Trieste Film Festival
21.01.2010 - 28.01.2010 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
21.01.2010 - 28.01.2010 -
Tromso Internasjonale Filmfestival
18.01.2010 - 24.01.2010 -
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
10.11.2009 - 15.11.2009 -
Duisburg, Duisburger Filmwoche / vhs
02.11.2009 - 08.11.2009 -
Leipzig, 52. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
26.10.2009 - 01.11.2009 -
Vienna, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
22.10.2009 - 04.11.2009 -
Locarno, 62. Festival del film Locarno
05.08.2009 - 15.08.2009 -
Nyon, 15e Visions du Réel - Festival international
23.04.2009 - 29.04.2009