The novel describes the lifelong, agonizing self-exploration of a group of six people. The focus is on excerpts from the lives of three women and three men from their hours together as children up to their old age.
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- Virginia Woolf in Rodmell, 1926 (akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio)
The episodes dedicated to them are framed ten times by short interludes that describe the impressions of a day on the coast from its summer dawn to an autumn or winter evening.
The transition from the interludes, which repeatedly describe sun, beach, garden and the house, to the episodes of the characters produces a rhythm of repetition and change, in the course of which one day at the coast, the change of the seasons and the life of the six main characters evolve fulfill.The waves
By Virginia Woolf
Translation by Herbert and Marlys Herlitschka
Processing: Walter Hilsbecher
Composition: Peter Zwetkoff
Director: Bernhard Rübenach
With Wolfgang Büttner, Gustl Halenke, Solveig Thomas, Henny Schneider-Wenzel, Gert Westphal, Walter Hilsbecher, Pinkas Braun
Produktion: SWR/WDR 1962–
