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
Gerd Lohmeyer.... as Postmaster
Tereza Vetrovska.... 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)
