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
Valérie Kaprisky
Milena Jesenská
Stacy Keach
Jesenski
Gudrun Landgrebe
Olga
Nick Mancuso
Jaromir
Peter Gallagher
Pollak
Yves Jacques
Max Brod
Jacques Penot
Simon Foreman
Jeanne Marine
Lisa
Philip Anglim
Kafka
Clotilde Aras
Unknown
Philippe Caroit
Von Vollmar
Claude Duneton
Unknown
Christine Fersen
Unknown
Maxime Leroux
Unknown
Pierre Romans
Hermann Bahr
Marie-Françoise Audollent
Unknown
Paul Barrett
Unknown
Pierre Belot
Unknown
Rémy Carpentier
Unknown
Philippe Cal
Unknown
André Chaumeau
Unknown
Samuel Chaimovitch
Unknown
Robert Degennes
Unknown
David Gabison
Unknown
Georges Goldfayn
Unknown
Nicole Gros
Unknown
Raoul Guylad
Unknown
Clément Harari
Unknown
Dorine Hollier
Unknown
Sandrine Kiberlain
Unknown
Dany Kogan
Unknown
Guy Konopnicki
Unknown
François Lalande
Unknown
Philippe Lamendin
Unknown
Odile McDonald
Unknown
Eric Peter
Unknown
Maximilien Regiani
Unknown
Urs Remond
Unknown
Bogusława Schubert
Unknown
Francis Sarthou
Unknown
André Schmit
Unknown
Catherine Sola
Unknown
Bernard Spiegel
Unknown
Catherine Therouenne
Unknown
Jean Tolzac
Unknown
Bettina Wien
Unknown
Jürgen Zwingel
Unknown
Marc de Jonge
Blei
Michele Hermet
Young Woman
Crew
Véra Belmont
Director, Writer, Producer
Louis Garfinkle
Writer
Marie-Geneviève Ripeau
Writer
Jana Cerna
Novel
Barbara Zittwitz
Editor
Martine Giordano
Editor
Yves Langlois
Editor
Jean Beaudoin
Editor
Dietrich Lohmann
Director of Photography
Claude Léger
Producer
Linda Gutenberg
Producer
Jose Villaverde
Casting
Jean-Marie Sénia
Original Music Composer