Milena

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Marie-Geneviève Ripeau · Jana Cerna · Nick Mancuso · Véra Belmont · Peter Gallagher · Philip Anglim · Jacques Penot · Jeanne Marine · Gudrun Landgrebe · Yves Jacques · Clotilde Aras · Louis Garfinkle · Stacy Keach · Valérie Kaprisky

Studios & networks

Bavaria Film · Farena Films · France 3 Cinéma · Les Films de l'Amante · Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment · Sofinergie Films · Stéphan Films