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Lea (film)

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Lea
Directed byIvan Fila
Produced byIvan Fila
Eliska Sekavova
Herbert Rimbach
StarringLenka Vlasakova
Christian Redl
Hanna Schygulla
Miroslav Donutil
Music byPetr Hapka
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCzech Republic/France/Germany

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

Plot

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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.

Cast

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Awards

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1997 Angers European First Film Festival
1997 Brussels International Film Festival
  • Won Audience Award
  • Won Crystal Star Award for Best European Feature
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
  • Won Best Feature Award
  • Nominated for Maverick Spirit Award
1998 Czech Lions
1996 European Film Awards
  • Nominated European Film Award for Best Young Film
1997 German Film Awards
  • Nominated Gold Film Award for Outstanding Feature Film
1998 USA Golden Globe
  • Nominated Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film
1997 London Film Festival
  • Won Satyajit Ray Award
1997 Max Ophüls Festival
  • Won Audience Award
1997 Sochi International Film Festival
  • Won FIPRESCI Prize
1997 Stockholm Film Festival
  • Nominated Bronze Horse Award
1997 Venice Film Festival
  • Won OCIC Award in Honorable Mention
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