The Glory of Life (2024)

  • 6
  • 06/07/2024 (AT)
  • Drama, Romance, History
  • 1h 38m

Overview

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. In the summer of 1923, he met Dora Diamant in the seaside resort Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. He is a man of world, the 14 years younger woman is from the deep East, he can write, she can dance. She has both feet firmly on the ground, he is always hovering a little above it. She embraces the indicative, he gets tangled up in the conjunctive. But the worldly wise Dora accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. Together they go to Berlin and when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. They are granted a single year together until Franz Kafka's health deteriorates incurable. However their year together allows them to feel the glory of life.

Georg Maas

Director, Screenplay

Judith Kaufmann

Director

Michael Gutmann

Screenplay

Michael Kumpfmüller

Novel

Cast

Henriette Confurius's headshot

Henriette Confurius

Dora Diamant
Sabin Tambrea's headshot

Sabin Tambrea

Franz Kafka
Manuel Rubey's headshot

Manuel Rubey

Max Brod
Daniela Golpashin's headshot

Daniela Golpashin

Elli
Leo Altaras's headshot

Leo Altaras

Paul
Klaus Huhle's headshot

Klaus Huhle

Dr. Hoffmann
Kristian Wanzl Nekrasov's headshot

Kristian Wanzl Nekrasov

Dr. Johann Kisch
Peter Moltzen's headshot

Peter Moltzen

Karl Hermann

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