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The Glory of Life

2024 · 98 min

A tender, bittersweet romance that lingers in quiet moments, celebrating love amid illness and impending loss.

Directed by
Judith Kaufmann, Georg Maas
Genres
Drama, Romance, History
Starring
Henriette Confurius, Sabin Tambrea, Manuel Rubey
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.

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Directed by
Judith Kaufmann, Georg Maas
Genres
Drama, Romance, History
Starring
Henriette Confurius, Sabin Tambrea, Manuel Rubey
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Tone
  • romanticstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • death
  • healing
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance8
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance, history
Directed by
Judith Kaufmann, Georg Maas
Written by
Michael Gutmann, Georg Maas
Starring
Henriette Confurius, Sabin Tambrea, Manuel Rubey, Daniela Golpashin, Leo Altaras, Klaus Huhle, Kristian Nekrasov, Peter Moltzen
Music
Paul Eisenach, Jonas Hofer
Cinematography
Judith Kaufmann
Runtime
98 min
Country
Austria, Germany
Languages
Hebrew, German

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