Milena

Release Date: 1991-07-04

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.

Rating: 2 / 10

Cast

Valérie Kaprisky

as Milena Jesenská

Stacy Keach

as Jesenski

Gudrun Landgrebe

as Olga

Nick Mancuso

as Jaromir

Peter Gallagher

as Pollak