“The Glory of Life” at LAJFF

Come join us on Saturday night inspirating and beautiful film at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) about Kafka!Directed by Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann

Judith Kaufmann is an award-winning filmmaker and was a Ballhaus Fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. The annual fellowship is given to outstanding directors of photography in cooperation with the German Film Academy.

Q&A to follow the screening with Jeffrey High, leading international scholar on Kafka and Professor of German Studies at CSULB.

ABOUT THE FILM: Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka’s life becomes his happiest. He has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. But the worldly wise Dora Diamant accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. The two meet in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. Together they go to Berlin and, when Franz’s health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. Barely a year after they meet, he dies. The memory of their time together will shape Dora for the rest of her life.​

Germany/2024/Drama/98 MinutesGerman with English subtitles

In Partnership with the Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House and Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.