Underplayed Gems

Such Is Life (1930)

Such Is Life poster
Original title
Takový je život
Directed by
Carl Junghans
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Czechoslovakia, Germany
Runtime
1h 11m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A working-class family struggles with poverty and daily hardships in 1930s Prague. The film follows the mother as she tries to hold her household together through illness, loss, and financial instability.

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What happens

Such Is Life (Czech: Takový je život) is a 1930 Czech drama film directed by Carl Junghans and starring Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pištěk and Máňa Ženíšková. The German director Carl Junghans was unable to secure funding in his native country, but eventually found an investor in Theodor Pištěk and the movie was made in Czechoslovakia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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