

139 minutes
7/4/1991
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.

Valérie Kaprisky
as Milena Jesenská

Stacy Keach
as Jesenski

Gudrun Landgrebe
as Olga

Nick Mancuso
as Jaromir

Peter Gallagher
as Pollak

Yves Jacques
as Max Brod

Jacques Penot
as Simon Foreman

Jeanne Marine
as Lisa

Philip Anglim
as Kafka
Clotilde Aras

Philippe Caroit
as Von Vollmar

Claude Duneton

Christine Fersen

Maxime Leroux
Pierre Romans
as Hermann Bahr

Marie-Françoise Audollent

Paul Barrett

Pierre Belot

Rémy Carpentier
Philippe Cal

André Chaumeau
Samuel Chaimovitch
Robert Degennes

David Gabison
Georges Goldfayn

Nicole Gros

Raoul Guylad

Clément Harari
Dorine Hollier

Sandrine Kiberlain

Dany Kogan
Guy Konopnicki

François Lalande

Philippe Lamendin
Odile McDonald
Eric Peter
Maximilien Regiani

Urs Remond

Bogusława Schubert
Francis Sarthou
André Schmit

Catherine Sola

Bernard Spiegel
Catherine Therouenne
Jean Tolzac
Bettina Wien

Jürgen Zwingel

Marc de Jonge
as Blei
Michele Hermet
as Young Woman