Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens

1923: Dora Diamant and Franz Kafka meet by chance on the Baltic Sea beach. He is a man of the world, she 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 subjunctive. But when the two get to know each other, all differences become irrelevant. They are granted a single year until Franz Kafka dies far too early. Even though Kafka's health deteriorates more and more, their year together allows them to experience THE GLORY OF LIFE.

Love against all odds - this is how the premise of THE GLORY OF LIFE could be summarised. Based on the bestseller of the same name by Michael Kumpfmüller, the film tells the touching story of Franz Kafka and Dora Diamant's great love.