• Director(s):

    SZLOVAK (CHARLOTTE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2004

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD

On 16 June 2004, Ireland will be celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the day that provided the inspiration for Joyce's most famous novel, Ulysses. This documentary takes us on an amazing, comic journey to the heart of this popular festival, in search of a writer and his people.

The Dubliners celebrate Bloomsday - the anniversary of the "ordinary" day which, as described by James Joyce, revolutionised modern literature - every year. For the centenary, Ulysses in Dublin introduces us to the Irish, as they recreate the characters from their fellow-countryman's legendary novel, reeling off their speeches with the aid of many a pint of Guinness.
"Sure you'll find Joyce in the pubs, not in the museums!" assert the Dubliners, enthusiastically spouting whole paragraphs from Ulysses as if they were popular ditties instead of quotations from Joyce, the intellectual who disconcerts his readers by breaking all the rules of narrative.