Documentary
New Talent

ELFRIEDE JELINEK: Language Unleashed

Child prodigy, scandal writer, traitor of the fatherland, theatre fury, feminist, model lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, defiler of the nest, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel Prize winner.
The film about Elfriede Jelinek, who was the first Austrian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, focuses on her artistic approach to language.

Data

Category: Documentary, New Talent
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: HD, 90 Min
Release: 10.11.2022
Distribution: Filmcasino & Polyfilm Betriebs GmbH
Admissions: 28.221
Funding Film Institute: 114.096 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 32 %
Share of total production costs: 15 %
Television investment: 76.613 €
Co-production: Cala Filmproduktion (DE, 51%)
International funding: BKM, DFFF
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 18.05.2025
Viewers: 73.000
Film location: Styria, Berlin, Zurich, Vienna
Shooting time: December 2020 - February 2021
Days of shooting: 20
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Plan C Filmproduktion OG
Producer Austria: Claudia Wohlgenannt
Director: Claudia Müller
Script-concept: Claudia Müller
DOP: Christine A. Maier
Editor: Mechthild Barth
Sound engineer: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Protagonists: Elfriede Jelinek, Sophie Rois, Stefanie Reinsperger, Maren Kroymann, Sandra Hüller, Martin Wuttke, Ilse Ritter
Music: Eva Jantschitsch
Production manager: Hanne Lassl
German Title: Elfriede Jelinek - Die Sprache von der Leine lassen
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARTE