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Lea is a tchèque film of genre Drama directed by Ivan Fíla released in USA on 12 december 1996 with Lenka Vlasáková

Lea (1996)

Lea
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Released in USA 12 december 1996
Length 1h36
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating71% 3.5779353.5779353.5779353.5779353.577935

Lea is a Czech drama film. It was released in 1997.

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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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