Milena(1991)

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.

Genre: Drama

Director: Véra Belmont

Actors: Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Nick Mancuso, Peter Gallagher, Yves Jacques, Jacques Penot, Jeanne Marine, Philip Anglim, Clotilde Aras

Release date: 1991-07-04

Country of origin: Canada, France, Germany

Length: 2h 19m

Ratings:

• 6.3/10