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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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
Valérie KapriskyMilena Jesenská
Stacy KeachJesenski
Gudrun LandgrebeOlga
Nick MancusoJaromir
Peter GallagherPollak
Yves JacquesMax Brod
Jacques PenotSimon Foreman
Jeanne MarineLisa
Philip AnglimKafka
Philippe CaroitVon Vollmar
Claude DunetonCastExplore the crew
- Editor
- Barbara Zittwitz
- Editor
- Martine Giordano
- Writer
- Louis Garfinkle
- Producer
- Claude Léger
- Editor
- Yves Langlois
- Producer
- Linda Gutenberg
- Editor
- Jean Beaudoin
- Writer
- Marie-Geneviève Ripeau
- Producer
- Véra Belmont
- Original Music Composer
- Jean-Marie Sénia
- Director of Photography
- Dietrich Lohmann
- Director
- Véra Belmont
- Writer
- Véra Belmont