Lea (film)
# Lea (film)

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)

### 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 Ludvík Široký
* Nominated for Best Director going to Ivan Fila
* Nominated for Best Editing going to Ivana Davidová
* Nominated for Best Film
* Nominated for Best Screenplay going to Ivan Fila
* Nominated for Best Sound going to Marcel Spisak and Max Rammier-Rogall

### 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
