Milena
1991 · Movie · 139 min. · France
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. They marry and have a daughter. Milena writes for a Marxist paper till her husband leaves for the Soviet Union. She then confronts the rise of Nazism in the years leading up to the Second World War, and ends up in a concentration camp.
Direction Vera Belmont
Cast Valérie Kaprisky · Stacy Keach · Gudrun Landgrebe · Nick Mancuso · Peter Gallagher · Yves Jacques · Jacques Penot · Jeanne Marine · Philip Anglim · Sandrine Kiberlain · Philippe Caroit · Maxime Leroux · Claude Duneton
Soundtrack Jean-Marie Sénia
Screenplay Vera Belmont · Louis Garfinkle · Marie-Geneviève Ripeau · Jana Cerna
Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann
Original title Milena
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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