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THE GLORY OF LIFE (DIE HERRLICHKEIT DES LEBENS)
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Completed - GERMAN - Historical, Jewish, Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens wirft ein helles, heiteres Licht auf den berühmten Dichter und zeichnet behutsam sein letztes Lebensjahr, in dem er mit Dora Diamant die große Liebe feiert und sein Leben in die Hand nimmt, bevor es zu spät ist.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2024 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2024 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2023

Director(s) : Judith KAUFMANN, Georg MAAS
Cast : Henriette CONFURIUS, Sabin TAMBREA

Producer(s) : Helge SASSE (Tempest Film), Solveig FINA (Tempest Film)

Synopsis

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. He has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. But the worldly wise Dora Diamant accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. The two meet in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. Together they go to Berlin and, when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. Barely a year after they meet, he dies. The memory of their time together will shape Dora for the rest of her life.

Market status

  • AFM
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Country(ies) : GERMANY

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