Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Louis GarfinkleWriter
- Marie-Geneviève RipeauWriter
- Jean-Marie SéniaOriginal Music Composer
- Véra BelmontDirector
- Véra BelmontWriter
Cast
- Valérie KapriskyMilena Jesenská
- Stacy KeachJesenski
- Gudrun LandgrebeOlga
- Nick MancusoJaromir
- Peter GallagherPollak
- Yves JacquesMax Brod
- Jacques PenotSimon Foreman
- Jeanne MarineLisa
- Philip AnglimKafka
- Clotilde ArasCast
- Philippe CaroitVon Vollmar
- Claude DunetonCast