Virginity (1937)

  • NR
  • 11/04/1937 (XC)
  • Drama
  • 1h 23m

Overview

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)

Otakar Vávra

Director, Screenplay

Marie Majerová

Novel, Screenplay

František Čáp

Screenplay

A. J. Urban

Screenplay

Cast

Lída Baarová's headshot

Lída Baarová

Hana Poláčková
Jaroslava Skorkovská's headshot

Jaroslava Skorkovská

Hanina matka
František Kreuzmann's headshot

František Kreuzmann

Hanin otčím
Ladislav Boháč's headshot

Ladislav Boháč

Pavel Jimeš
Zdeněk Štěpánek's headshot

Zdeněk Štěpánek

Josef Nevostrý
Adina Mandlová's headshot

Adina Mandlová

Lili
Božena Šustrová's headshot

Božena Šustrová

Mary
Jaroslav Průcha's headshot

Jaroslav Průcha

Rudolf Res

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