Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed (2022)
Overview
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.
Cast
Elfriede Jelinek
Self
Sophie Rois
(voice)
Stefanie Reinsperger
(voice)
Sandra Hüller
(voice)
Martin Wuttke
(voice)
Maren Kroymann
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