The Wake
Dec 24 2000
•8h 42m
•Drama
The Wake is the title of a large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (London 1939), a limit-transgressing, perhaps even limit-dissolving book that not only transgresses the limits of what literature is and is capable of, but inscribes transgressions on almost all conceivable levels. It is at the same time dream book, history book and necrology. It is almost impossible to determine whether we are dealing with a long poem, a prose narrative or a piece of drama.
Cast
See allClaus Christensen
The Father
Niels Olaf Gudme
The Father
Sarah Boberg
The Mother
Elina Löwensohn
The Mother
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