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SYNOPSIS

From the land to the sea: the journey in spectacular fashion of a coffin symbolic of the Scandinavian literary world. 1st May 1910, a huge crowd flock around the coffin of the great writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Thus a journey begins through the streets of Copenhagen. In the people who had gathered to see the funeral cortege go by, anonymous people mingled with the “officials”. Near the customs warehouse, on the port, Chairman of the Commission Carl Theodor Zahle paid the final tribute to Bjørnson: his body must be taken onboard the battleship the “Norge” to be taken back to Norway, his native land. The Norwegians today claim that the pompous procession reproduced here by an anonymous camera was part of a huge advertising campaign intended to promote Bjørnson’s complete works.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Anonyme

• Film score composer

  Pablo Pico