2001-2010DocumentarySwitzerlandVadim Jendreyko
Vadim Jendreyko – Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten AKA The Woman with the 5 Elephants (2009)


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.
—Göteborg International Film Festival
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French, Italian, Spanish,Portuguese, Russian, Polish, German
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