Lea (film)

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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
Release date	1997 (1997)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Czech Republic/France/Germany

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

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.

Cast[]

• Lenka Vlasakova.... as Lea
• Christian Redl.... as Strehlow
• Hanna Schygulla.... as Wanda
• Miroslav Donutil.... as Gregor Palty
• Udo Kier.... as Block
• .... as Postmaster
• .... as Young Lea

Awards[]

1997 Angers European First Film Festival

• Won Audience Award for Feature Film (tied with Some Mother's Son)
• Won C.I.C.A.E award
• Won Telcipro award (tied with Pretty Village, Pretty Flame)

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

• Won Best Actress Award going to Lenka Vlasáková
• Won Best Cinematography going to Vladimír Smutný
• Nominated for Best Design Achievement going to Petr Kunc and
• Nominated for Best Director going to Ivan Fila
• Nominated for Best Editing going to
• Nominated for Best Film
• Nominated for Best Screenplay going to Ivan Fila
• Nominated for Best Sound going to and

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

External links[]

• Lea at IMDb