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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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