Lea (film)
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Directed byIvan Fila
Produced byIvan Fila
Eliska Sekavova
Herbert Rimbach
Eliska Sekavova
Herbert Rimbach
StarringLenka Vlasakova
Christian Redl
Hanna Schygulla
Miroslav Donutil
Christian Redl
Hanna Schygulla
Miroslav Donutil
Music byPetr Hapka
| 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 |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Czech Republic/France/Germany |
Lea is a Czech drama film. It was released in 1997.
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.
