• ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED



  • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED



  • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED



  • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED



  • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED



ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

by Claudia Müller

ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED

Germany, Austria | 2022 | 96:00 min

Original Title:
ELFRIEDE JELINEK - DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
A complex, associative work that embraces contradictions and offers a visual take on the Nobel laureate’s technique of linguistic montage.
Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language. The montage of archive material with voiceovers and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view. [39 FFMUC]

with: Ilse Ritter, Sandra Hüller, Stefanie Reinsperger, Sophie Rois, Maren Kroymann, Martin Wuttke
Festivals/Awards
2022
FIPRESCI Prize, by the International Federation of Film Critics – 39 FFMUC, FILMFEST MÜNCHEN
20 doclisboa
V'22 – 60 Viennale
26 Ji.hlava IDFF
39 Kassel Documentary FF 
2023
CPH:DOX – Highlights
46 Göteborg IFF
DIAGONALE, Graz
German Film Award Documentary #lola23 – Deutscher Filmpreis
nominated German Film Award Best Editing – Mechthild Barth
nominated ROMAN BRODMANN PREIS
Millenium DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY
Best Editing Documentary Cinema for Mechthild Barth
Austrian Film Award – Best Dcoumentary
#euff23 European Union Film Festival, Toronto


Cast and Crew
  • Director Claudia Müller
  • Producer Martina Haubrich (CALA Filmproduktion GmbH), Claudia Wohlgenannt (Plan-C Filmproduktion OG)
  • Director of Photography Christine A. Maier
  • Editor Mechthild Barth
  • Sound Johnnes Schmelzer-Zieringer
  • Sound Design Johannes Schmelzer-Zieringer
  • Score Eva Jantschitsch
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