The Woman with the 5 Elephants
The Woman with the 5 Elephants

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Woman with the 5 Elephants:

Svetlana Geier
Anna Götte
Hannelore Hagen
Jürgen Klodt

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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.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzA no-nonsense intelligently engaging biopic documentary.
Time Out - 8/10 by Keith UhlichJendreyko elegantly sketches in the details of his subject's life and the historical events surrounding her coming-of-age-out of which emerges a fascinating subtext about the malleable powers of language.
New York Post - 8/10 by V.A. MusettoThe film is most effective when Geier, accompanied by a granddaughter, goes to Ukraine to speak at a school.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Jesse CataldoWatching Svetlana Geierat work, parsing the wild complexities of language as she converts Russian into German, the doc becomes a meditation on enforcing order in a world that refuses to accept it.
Village Voice - 6/10 by Michelle OrangeGeier, who died in 2010, speaks on all subjects - from her son's mortal injury to the nature of her various collaborations - with the contemplative, courtly intelligence of her favorite novels.
New York Daily News - 2/10 by Joe NeumaierAlas, this learned woman of letters - her expertise became the work of Dostoyevsky, whose major novels Geier nicknames "the five elephants" - is ill served by a trudging approach and dry-as-dust, procedural style.
User Review - 8/10 by Louise CAn elegant and lyrical documentary about renowned translator Svetlana Geier, who has dedicated her life to translating Russian literature into German, more specifically, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Geier, who lived an extraordinary life, coming of age during WWII in the Ukraine and Germany, has both a keen mastery and unique appreciation of the beauty of language, which the film evokes with great beauty.

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