Milena (1991)

4.3/10 139 min Drama

Overview

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.

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

Philip Anglim

Kafka

Philippe Caroit

Von Vollmar

Claude Duneton

Christine Fersen

Maxime Leroux

Marie-Françoise Audollent

Paul Barrett

Pierre Belot

Rémy Carpentier

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