IMDb plot summary: Realistic portrait of a poor working family in late 20s Prague: the washerwoman mother whose burial is held after she scalds herself; the alcoholic father; the manicurist daughter who becomes pregnant.
Directed by Carl Junghans. Stars Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pistek, and Mána Zenísková.
Such is Life is a silent 1930 Russian drama about a poor woman, her lazy husband, and her adult daughter, and how difficult their lives are. This one did not have any dialogue title cards, only chapter titles, and I did not have translations for those title cards, so it's possible that some of this literally got lost in translation, but I didn't get much out of this one. There is one interesting sequence where the woman gets burned by some boiling water that I think is edited extremely well with some unique techniques to show the danger and the pain of the situation, but that is really the only thing I remember about this. Silent movies can be tough for me to process, so I'm happy to believe that this was a "me" problem, but there just didn't seem to be a lot going on in the story other than just seeing these characters be miserable over and over again. Maybe that's the purpose of this, but it didn't work for me very well.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Such Is Life (1930)
lost to Air Force One (#1997 → #1993)
lost to Avanti! (#2997 → #2990)
beat For Love of the Game (#3500 → #3501)
lost to What Lies Beneath (#3236 → #3222)
beat Life with Father (#3372 → #3375)
lost to On the Town (#3308 → #3226)
beat Petulia (#3339 → #3342)
lost to Superman Returns (#3324 → #3310)
lost to From Here to Eternity (#3331 → #3258)
beat The Blue Dahlia (#3335 → #3338)
beat Bad Teacher (#3333 → #3335)
beat All Dogs Go to Heaven (#3332 → #3334)
📊 Ranked #3333/4004 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 17
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