Milena (1991)
2h 19m
Running Time
July 4, 1991Release Date
Milena (1991)
2h 19m
Running Time
July 4, 1991Release Date
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Valérie Kaprisky
Milena Jesenska
Stacy Keach
Jesenski
Gudrun Landgrebe
Olga
Peter Gallagher
Pollak
Nick Mancuso
Jaromir
Yves Jacques
Max Brod
Véra Belmont
Director
Jacques Penot
Simon Foreman
Jana Cerna
Writer
Jeanne Marine
Lisa
Louis Garfinkle
Writer
Philip Anglim
Kafka
Marie-Geneviève Ripeau
Writer
Linda Gutenberg
Producer
Claude Léger
Producer
Philippe Caroit
Von Vollmar
Media.
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Milena is a 1991 French biographical film about Czech writer Milena Jesenská.