Milena

Milena — Plot

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

• Release date
• July 4, 1991
• Runtime
• 139 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Véra Belmont

Milena — Cast

Valérie Kaprisky Milena Jesenská Stacy Keach Jesenski Gudrun Landgrebe Olga Nick Mancuso Jaromir Peter Gallagher Pollak Yves Jacques Max Brod Jacques Penot Simon Foreman Jeanne Marine Lisa