Feature Film
Drama

The Glory of Life

He is complicated, full of self-doubt, mercilessly talented and terminally ill. She has both feet firmly on the ground and loves life.‍

When Franz Kafka and Dora Diamant meet, it is not foreseen that the two will fall in love with each other. But as fate would have it, they spend a year proving to death that it is powerless against love.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: Digit., 100 Min
Release: 07.06.2024
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 23.547
Funding Film Institute: 190.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 12 %
Share of total production costs: 4 %
Funding ÖFI+: 719.878 €
Share of total production costs: 15 %
Television investment: 180.000 €
Co-production: Tempest Film (DE, 71%)
International funding: Medienboard BB, Filmstiftg. NRW, MV Filmförderung, FFA, DFFF
Funding program: ÖFI, ÖFI+
Film location: Vienna, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Shooting time: May - June 2023
Days of shooting: 28
Completion: Spring 2024
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Lotus Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer Austria: Thomas Pridnig, Clemens Wollein
Director: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Script: Georg Maas, Michael Gutmann
DOP: Judith Kaufmann
Editor: Gisela Zick, Hansjörg Weißbrich
Sound engineer: Hubertus Müll
Sound design: Matteo Bohé
Costume design: Tanja Hausner
Set design: Katharina Wöppermann
Music: Paul Eisenach, Jonas Hofer
Green Film Consultant: Julia Mitterlehner // Green Runner*: Zoe Adrion
Cast: Sabin Tambrea (Franz Kafka), Henriette Confurius (Dora), Daniela Golpashin (Elli), Manuel Rubey (Max)
Production manager: Robert Geisler, Markus Brinkmann
German Title: Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)