Milena
1991, English. Directed by Véra Belmont.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 4 July 1991
- Country
- Canada, France, Germany
- Written by
- Marie-Geneviève Ripeau, Louis Garfinkle, Véra Belmont
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Milena runs 139 minutes (2h 19m).
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Milena isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 July 1991. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Milena?
Milena (1991) was directed by Véra Belmont and stars Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe.