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.
- Date of release
- 1991-07-04
- TMDB
- 4.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Véra Belmont
Casting
- 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
- Clotilde Aras
- Philippe Caroit — Von Vollmar
- Claude Duneton
Interesting facts
Milena is a 1991 French biographical film about Czech writer Milena Jesenská.
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