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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.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Claus ChristensenClaus ChristensenThe Father
  • Photo of Niels Olaf GudmeNiels Olaf GudmeThe Father
  • Photo of Sarah BobergSarah BobergThe Mother
  • Photo of Elina LöwensohnElina LöwensohnThe Mother
  • Photo of Rikke Louise AnderssonRikke Louise AnderssonThe Daughter
  • Photo of Hildigunn EyðfinsdóttirHildigunn EyðfinsdóttirThe Daughter
  • Photo of Thomas Bo LarsenThomas Bo LarsenOne of the Sons
  • Photo of Sonny TronborgSonny TronborgOne of the Sons
  • Photo of John FreyJohn FreyOne of the Sons
  • Photo of Philippe RichardPhilippe RichardOne of the Sons

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