Lea (film)

Lea
Directed by Ivan Fila
Produced by Ivan Fila
Eliska Sekavova
Herbert Rimbach
Starring Lenka Vlasakova
Christian Redl
Hanna Schygulla
Miroslav Donutil
Music by Petr Hapka
Running time 100 minutes
Country Czech Republic/Germany

Lea is a Czech drama film. It was released in 1997.

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Plot

Lea witnesses her mother's rape and murder by her father as a child and because of it speaks very little and writes poems to her mother. Lea then grows up with foster parents in a different part of Slovakia. Strehlow buys Lea, now aged 21, from her foster father and imprisons her in a castle in Germany, using the same tools Lea's father used to control Lea as a child and to kill Lea's mother. As Strehlow learns more of Lea's past, he permits her to continue writing to her mother. Lea dies of a stroke within a year of living with Strehlow.

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Awards

1997 Angers European First Film Festival
1997 Brussels International Film Festival
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
1998 Czech Lions
1996 European Film Awards
1997 German Film Awards
1998 USA Golden Globe
1997 London Film Festival
1997 Max Ophuls Festival
1997 Sochi International Film Festival
1997 Stockholm Film Festival
1997 Venice Film Festival

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