Movielogr
The Wake (2000)
Directed by Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz
Overview
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.
Length 462 minutes
Actors
Claus Christensen | Niels Olaf Gudme | Sarah Boberg | Elina Löwensohn | Rikke Louise Andersson | Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir | Thomas Bo Larsen | Sonny Tronborg | John Frey | Philippe Richard | Merete Nørgaard | Mark Duran | Gry Worre Hallberg | Anne Bærskog Hauger | Mette Agnete Horn | Kitt Johnson | Ditte Olsson | Steen Rasmussen | Knud Vesterskov | Michael Wikke | Lærke Winther Andersen