GERMAN CURRENTS FILM FESTIVAL 2024
THE GLORY OF LIFE

DIE HERRLICHKEIT DES LEBENS

Sat, 10/12/2024
7:00 PM Los Feliz 3 Theatre

Presented on Saturday, October 12th @ 7:00 PM at the American Cinematheque's Los Feliz 3 Theatre. 

SOLD OUT - THE GLORY OF LIFE - SOLD OUT

THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT.
THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE WILL HAVE A STAND-BY LINE IN FRONT OF THE THEATER.

Germany (2024) 98 min. DCP Projection. German/English with English Subtitles
Director Judith Kaufmann, Georg Maas
Screenplay Michael Gutmann, Georg Maas, based Michael Kumpfmüller’s novel
Cinematography Judith Kaufmann
Cast Sabin Tambrea, Henriette Confurius, Daniela Golpashin, Mira Griesbaum, Lionel Hesse, Manuel Rubey
Producers Helge Sasse, Solveig Fina, Tommy Pridnig
Production Company Tempest Film Produktion GmbH, Lotus Filmproduktion GmbH

Summer, 1923. The Baltic Sea. The writer Franz Kafka (Tambrea), seriously ill with tuberculosis, convalesces at a seaside resort in Müritz. By chance, he meets the 25-year-old Dora Diamant (Confurius) on the beach, a governess from the Jewish Volksheim Berlin.  Though they seem from different worlds, it is love at first sight, and for Kafka, Diamant embodies the essence of life.  As their love grows, Kafka follows Diamant to Berlin. When his condition worsens, the lovers leave Berlin for a sanatorium near Vienna, where, in Diamant’s arms, Kafka succumbs to his illness barely a year after they meet. Adapted by Gutmann and Writer-Director Maas from Michael Kumpfmüller’s best-selling novel of the same name and exquisitely lensed by multi-award-winning Cinematography and co-director Judith Kaufmann, THE GLORY OF LIFE blends fact and fiction to capture Kafka’s last love and year of life.  
 

FESTIVALS, AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: 
German Film Award 2024 Nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director
Festival des deutschen Films 2024 Nominated for Rheingold Audience Award

© Georg Maas

Georg Maas was born in 1960 in Aachen. He studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin, followed by workshops with István Szabó, Tilda Swinton, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Wojciech Marczewski. His films include: the trilogy of shorts LEAD A NORMAL LIFE, 10 ¾ INCH and HERE COMES THE SUN (1986-1988), the documentaries THE OTHER UNIVERSE OF KLAUS BEYER (1994), ESCAPED (1995), PATHFINDERS (1998), THE REAL WORLD OF PETER GABRIEL (2009), THE BUDDHA WALLA (2010), and the features BREATHLESSNESS (1991), NEWFOUNDLAND (2003), and TWO LIVES (2012), co-directed by Judith Kaufmann.

© Judith Kaufmann

Judith Kaufmann was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Berlin, where she studied at SFOF. As Director of Photography, has worked on award-winning feature films by Andres Veiel, Feo Aladag, Georg Maas, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Petra Volpe, Caroline Link, Sherry Horman, Ina Weisse, Bettina Oberli, Ilker Çatak, and Andreas Dresen. In 2012, she received the Honorary Award of the Deutsche Kamerapreis. She is a member of the German Society of Cinematographers and of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a 2020 Villa Aurora Ballhaus Fellow. She lives in Berlin.

US DISTRIBUTOR
Menemsha Films
www.menemshafilms.com

 

The German Currents Film Festival is produced by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque in kind cooperation with the German Consulate General, and with the support of The Friends of Goethe, Condor, ELMA, The Villa Aurora, and the German Film Office.