The Glory of Life (Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens)

  • man and woman riding away on motorcycle
  • man and woman walking arm linked on grassland
  • man and woman looking back as they ride away on train
  • man in suit on sitting at the beach
  • woman dancing on the beach during sunset

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. 2024 is the 100th anniversary of the passing of literary great Franz Kafka.


Cast: Sabin Tambrea, Henriette Confurius, Manuel Rubey

Runtime
1h 38m
Director
Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann
Format
DCP
Country
Germany, Austria
Language
German w/ English Subtitles
First Showing
November 18, 2024