The Wake

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay

The Wake — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 24, 2000
• Runtime
• 462 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Michael Kvium

The Wake — Cast

C

Claus Christensen The Father

N

Niels Olaf Gudme The Father Sarah Boberg The Mother Elina Löwensohn The Mother Rikke Louise Andersson The Daughter

H

Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir The Daughter Thomas Bo Larsen One of the Sons Sonny Tronborg One of the Sons