Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed

Art & Music, Germany/Austria 2022

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.
97 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
German

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Director:

Claudia Müller

Protagonist:

Elfriede Jelinek

Original title:

Elfriede Jelinek – Die Sprache von der Leine lassen

Original language:

German

Further titles:

Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed

Format:

1.85:1 HD, Color with partial B/W

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

German