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Milena (1991)

director of photography: Dietrich Lohmann
cast: Valérie KapriskyStacy KeachGudrun LandgrebeNick MancusoPeter GallagherYves JacquesJacques PenotJeanne Marine
director: Véra Belmont
running time: 139 min.
synopsis
Prague1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakiabut she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollakand starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her fatherwhere she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalistMilena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.