title: Lea (film)
text: # 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
  