The Glory of Life (2024) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 14, 2024

Original Title:
Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens

Alternate Titles:
Kafka, d'un été à l'autre

Genres:
Drama | History | Romance

Production Companies:
DFFF
FISA
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Filmfonds Wien
Filmförderungsanstalt
Lotus-Film
MV Filmförderung
Medienboard Berlin Brandensburg
OFI
ORF
Tempest Film

Production Countries:
Austria | Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 6  CZ: 12+  DE: 6  ES: 12 

Runtime: 98

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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Additional Lighting Technician:
Bela Lukac
Peter Vertefeuille
Felix Bünsche
Eva Dürholt

Art Department Assistant:
Walter Kerschbaumer
Urs Fricke

Art Direction:
Andreas Zuhr
Antoinette Höring

Assistant Costume Designer:
Natascha Maraval

Assistant Grip:
Oliver Taubrich

Assistant Production Design:
Antoinette Höring

Assistant Property Master:
Antonia Beckmann
Lena Polczer

Assistant Set Decoration:
Christine Jahn
Gabriel Scheib

Best Boy Lighting Technician:
Christian Buhlert

Casting Director:
Anja Dihrberg

Choreographer:
Mareike Jung

Co-Producer:
Jochen Frieser
Otto Fritz
Andreas Fröhlich
Wolfgang Stürzl
Waltraud Elser-Weber
Gerald Weber

Construction Grip:
Remo Stecher
Thomas Brühning
Sven Kastanowicz
Ferdinand Prinz

Continuity:
Franziska Wilbrandt

Costume Design:
Tanja Hausner

Dialogue Editor:
Jürgen Schulz

Digital Imaging Technician:
Christian Kuss
Markus Kreuzwirth

Director:
Georg Maas
Judith Kaufmann

Director of Photography:
Judith Kaufmann

Dolly Grip:
Florian Daubeck
Marlon Koppelmann

Editor:
Gisela Zick
Hansjörg Weißbrich

Electrician:
David Roschke

First Assistant Camera:
Gero Neumann

First Assistant Director:
Madgar Hische
Claudia Beewen

Gaffer:
Lars Petersen

Graphic Designer:
Katja Clos

Key Grip:
Christopher Saß
Glenn König

Lighting Technician:
Joachim Nauen
Maximilian Hofko
David Roschke

Line Producer:
Clemens Wollein
Solveig Fina

Makeup Artist:
Valentina Schwez
Lisa Becker
Verena Morocutti
Jasmin Wöristher
Kordula Lingler
Katrin Werger
Sophie Chudzikowski
Dana Bieler

Makeup Designer:
Martha Ruess
Regina Breitfellner

Novel:
Michael Kumpfmüller

Original Music Composer:
Paul Eisenach
Jonas Hofer

Producer:
Solveig Fina
Thomas Pridnig
Clemens Wollein
Helge Sasse

Production Assistant:
Eva Lotta Trojandt

Production Coordinator:
Andreas Thor

Production Design:
Katharina Wöppermann

Production Manager:
Robert Geisler
Markus Brinkmann
Reinhard Schreiber

Property Master:
Kirsten Lieboldt-Longolius
Rainer Zottele
Max Schmigalla

Screenplay:
Georg Maas
Michael Gutmann

Script Supervisor:
Franziska Wilbrandt

Second Assistant Camera:
Uwe Zegnotat

Second Assistant Director:
Laura Felicitas Fuchs

Set Decoration:
Birgit Esser
Thomas Lehner

Set Dresser:
Hauke Spaethe
Friederike Berthold

Sound Designer:
Matteo Bohé

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Hendrik Bleier

Sound Recordist:
Hubertus Müll

Special Effects Supervisor:
Jens Döldissen

Steadicam Operator:
Ioana Tarchila

Still Photographer:
Christian Schulz

Stunt Driver:
Tim Haberland

Tailor:
Amelie Ziegler
Josefine Faerber
Luise Hecher

Video Assist Operator:
Max Meißner

Wardrobe Assistant:
Vivian Händler
Karin Rosemann

Wardrobe Master:
Lisa Jelem
Anja Heger

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