Movie

Milena

★ 4.3/10 · 3 votes 1991 2h 19m Released

Drama

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