The year is 1873. In the prestigious English Reform Club sits the always calm rich man Phileas Fogg. He reads in the newspaper that there are now so many railway lines, ferry routes and roads that one can travel around the world in just 80 days. None of the other members of the club believe this, but Phileas Fogg does, and they make a bet in which Phileas puts half of his fortune at stake.

Around the world in 80 days

Aalborg Theater

Jeppe is a man utterly devoid of control over his own life; he's a tenant farmer, beaten and cheated on by his wife, Nille. Additionally, Jeppe bears the scars of a decade in military service. His only escape is to drown his sorrows in alcohol at Jacob Shoemaker’s inn. When the baron and his servants find the drunken Jeppe on the dungheap and, as a practical joke, elevate him to king-for-a-day, he, as the 'baron,' assumes power and becomes surprisingly tyrannical before being drunkenly thrown back onto the dungheap. His punishment is an even more malicious jest, as Jeppe is mockingly sentenced to death and hanged, only to return home for one final humiliation.

Christian Albrechtsen

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