Product Details

• Actors: Lenka Vlasáková, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla, Miroslav Donutil, Udo Kier
• Directors: Ivan Fíla
• Writers: Ivan Fíla, Lubomir Feldek
• Producers: Ivan Fíla, Alena Rimbach, Andres Jauernick, Harald Herzog, Herbert Rimbach
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: German, Slovak
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Facets
• DVD Release Date: June 15, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001Z4PQE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,436 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Lea" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A profound love story about two outsiders, LEA is the tale of a beautiful Slovak girl from a rural area who reluctantly marries a German antiques restorer 30 years her senior. The relationship seems doomed, but gradually the two outsiders discover each other’s inner core, because they share a painful past. Though they began their relationship in silence, they gradually learn to speak a common language. Fear turns to passion in a film that explores the outer edges of love, memory and acceptance.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "It was just a dream", February 1, 2006

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Matthias Weber (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lea [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film has an outer and an inner side, like most good films. On the outer side, an antique restorer from Germany marries a 30 year younger Slovak girl (after 'purchasing' her from her forster parents). The film shows the development of their difficult relationship.

On the inner side, this is a film about healing traumatic experiences from the past,

and it is deeply moving.

As for the DVD: The transfer could be better (grainy TV quality). The film languages are German and Cech, and the english subtitles can't be turned off.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerizing film, July 27, 2006

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Wendy Schroeder (Englewood, Co United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lea (DVD)

I found the film Lea disturbing. A modern day peasant girl in an Eastern European country witnesses the brutal treatment and eventually murder of her mother by her father (stepfather?). A couple in the village takes her in and sells her to a cruel German for a princely sum of money (by their standards) to be his wife. He is 30 years older than her and his treatment of her is very similar to what her mother put up with. Also, she is a gifted writer and also a artist. Maybe she developed this talent because the trauma she endured made her unable to speak easily.

It might be because I'm American I can't see how the two develop a love for each other as time goes on. I could never truly forgive the man even if he did slowly change.