Lea (film)

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
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Czech Republic/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.

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