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THE GLORY OF LIFE

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  • RELEASED IN: 2024
  • 99 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann

ABOUT THE FILM:

In German with English subtitles. 

Summer, 1923. The Baltic Sea. The writer Franz Kafka (Tambrea), seriously ill with tuberculosis, convalesces at a seaside resort in Müritz. By chance, he meets the 25-year-old Dora Diamant (Confurius) on the beach, a governess from the Jewish Volksheim Berlin.  Though they seem from different worlds, it is love at first sight, and for Kafka, Diamant embodies the essence of life.  As their love grows, Kafka follows Diamant to Berlin. When his condition worsens, the lovers leave Berlin for a sanatorium near Vienna, where, in Diamant’s arms, Kafka succumbs to his illness barely a year after they meet. Adapted by Gutmann and Writer-Director Maas from Michael Kumpfmüller’s best-selling novel of the same name and exquisitely lensed by multi-award-winning Cinematography and co-director Judith Kaufmann, THE GLORY OF LIFE blends fact and fiction to capture Kafka’s last love and year of life.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Menemsha Films

COUNTRY: Germany