The Glory of Life

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Henriette Confurius

Dora Diamant

Sabin Tambrea

Franz Kafka

Manuel Rubey

Max Brod

Daniela Golpashin

Elli

Leo Altaras

Paul

Klaus Huhle

Dr. Hoffmann

Kristian Nekrasov

Dr. Johann Kisch

Peter Moltzen

Karl Hermann

Luise Aschenbrenner

Tile

Alma Hasun

Ottla