Synopsis
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. They marry and have a daughter. Milena writes for a Marxist paper till her husband leaves for the Soviet Union. She then confronts the rise of Nazism in the years leading up to the Second World War, and ends up in a concentration camp.
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Director (1)
Actors (37)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Stephan-Films
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Farena Films
- Foreign production companies : Bavaria Film Gmbh, Les Films L'Amante
- Film exports/foreign sales : Wide
- French distribution : UGC Distribution
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Véra Belmont
- Assistant directors : François Enginger, Pierre Magny, Christophe Vallée
- Adaptation : Véra Belmont
- Dialogue Writer : Véra Belmont
- Author of original work : Jana Cerna
- Sound Recordist : Patrick Rousseau
- Screenwriters : Guy Konopnicky, Véra Belmont, Marie-Geneviève Ripeau, Lou Garfinkle, Dan Franck
- Director of Photography : Dietrich Lohmann
- Camera Operator : Olivier Petitjean
- Production manager : Linda Gutenberg
- Editors : Yves Langlois, Martine Giordano
- Sound Editor : Michel Klochendler
- Assistant editors : Kako Kelber, Jean Beaudoin, Catherine Schwartz
- Production Designer : Jacques Bufnoir
- Music Composer : Jean-Marie Sénia
- Costume designer : Olga Berluti
- Location manager : Cathy Lemeslif
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Portrait
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France (55.0%), Canada (25.0%), Germany (20.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1990
- French release : 09/01/1991
- Runtime : 2 h 19 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 63743
- Visa issue date : 31/01/1991
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
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