The woman with the 5 elephants (Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten)
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Creative Documentary with Swetlana Geier, 93 Min. by Vadim Jendreyko
Awards:
Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2010 for the Best Documentary Film
Nomination German Film Price 2010 in the category feature length documentary
Nomination European Film Academy Documentary - Prix ARTE
Grand Jury Award (Sterling World Feature Competition), SILVERDOCS / Washington USA 2010
Winner Documentary Film Competition, Trieste Film Festival 2010 (Italy)
Alpe Adria Cinema Award to the Best Documentary Film (Audience Award), Trieste Film Festival 2010 (Italy)
SRG SSR idée suisse Prize, BAKA Forum 2010 (Germany)
Prix Spécial SRG SSR idée suisse of the international Jury, Festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2009 (Switzerland)
Prix SSA/Suissimage for the best Swiss Film, Festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2009 (Switzerland)
Special mention from the interreligious jury, Festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2009 (Switzerland)
DEFA Sponsoring Prize "for an outstanding German documentary film", DOK-Leipzig (Germany)
Audience Award to the Best Documentary Film, Bozner Filmtage 2010 (Italy)
Silver Prize of the international documentary competition, Yerevan IFF (Armeinia)
Visions du Réel in Nyon, Viennale (International Filmfestival Vienna), Festival del Film Locarno, DOK-Leipzig, Duisburger Filmwoche, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Tromso International Film Festival, Trieste Film Festival, 45. Solothurner Filmtage, DocPoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Göteborg International Film Festival, Zagreb Dox, Bradford International Film Festival, Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival, Planete Doc Review Film Festival Warsaw, Hotdocs Film Festival Toronto, SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival Silver Spring, Yerevan IFF.
Abstract
Swetlana Geier has translated Dostoyevsky's five most important novels – the "5 elephants". Now this over 80 years old woman is travelling for the first time back from her adopted country Germany to the places of her youth in the Ukraine. Her live was clouded by Europes unsteady past. By transcribing the russian language into german, she found a new spiritual home, which contributes to overcome sorrow and pain.
Info
Web site: http://www.5elefanten.ch/
Coproduction of Mira Film with Filmtank Hamburg, ZDF/3sat, Schweizer Fernsehen, funded by MFG Baden Württemberg, Bundesamt für Kultur, Basel Stadt/Basel Land.
Support
Supported by Volkart Stiftung, Fischer Stiftung, Stiftung Edith Maryon, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, UBS Kulturstiftung, Migros Kulturprozent.