Such Is Life (1930)

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

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.

melancholicslow-burngrittynaturalisticquietpoignantrestrainedharsh

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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