Milena

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Release date: July 04, 1991
Duration: 139 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Valérie Kaprisky
Milena Jesenská
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Stacy Keach
Jesenski
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Nick Mancuso
Jaromir