The Glory of Life
New York Jewish Film Festival 2025
January 15 - 29, 2025
This deeply emotional and elegantly realized romantic historical drama sensitively sketches the last year in the life of novelist Franz Kafka and the love he experiences with Dora Diamant, a Polish Jewish woman he meets on holiday at the Baltic Sea.
In this emotional, elegantly realized romantic historical drama, filmmakers Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann sensitively sketch the last year in the life of novelist Franz Kafka and the love he experiences with Dora Diamant, a Polish Jewish woman he meets on holiday at the Baltic Sea. Stricken by tuberculosis, the 40-year-old Czech writer is suddenly facing the unthinkable—happiness—at the moment that his health is most dramatically failing him. After a mutual instantaneous attraction, the two move in together in Berlin, but when he must relocate to a sanatorium in Austria, Dora makes the decision to join him, bringing joy to his final days. Starring Henriette Confurius and Sabin Tambrea as the tragic lovers, The Glory of Life, adapted from an acclaimed book by German writer Michael Kumpfmüller, takes an uplifting approach to its material, telling its story with dignity, humor, and poignant joy.
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