Production(s): France 3 Cinéma , Bavaria Film , Stéphan Films , Sofinergie Films , Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment , Farena Films , Les Films de l'Amante ,
Date de sortie: 1991-07-04
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..