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Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten (2010)
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.
Updated May 23 2020
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Cast
Anna Götte
Anna Götte
Hannelore Hagen
Hannelore Hagen
Jürgen Klodt
Jürgen Klodt
Johannes Geier
Johannes Geier (Archive Footage)
Fyodor Ivanovich Mikhaylov
Fyodor Ivanovich Mikhaylov (Archive Footage)
Sofiya Nikolaevna Mikhaylova
Sofiya Nikolaevna Mikhaylova (Archive Footage)
Crew
Vadim Jendreyko
Director
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