Virginity

Virginity

83 mins | Drama | Nov. 4, 1937

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)

Virginity

83 mins | Drama | Nov. 4, 1937

Virginity
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)
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Lucernafilm
Original title Panenství
Directors Walter Schorsch, Otakar Vávra
Writers Antonín Čejka, A. J. Urban, Marie Majerová, Otakar Vávra, František Čáp

Cast

Lída Baarová

as Hana Poláčková

Jaroslava Skorkovská

as Hanina matka

František Kreuzmann

as Hanin otčím

Ladislav Boháč

as Pavel Jimeš

Zdeněk Štěpánek

as Josef Nevostrý

Adina Mandlová

as Lili

Jaroslav Průcha

as Rudolf Res

Vítězslav Boček

as Hejtmánek

Bedřich Veverka

as MUDr. Mikula

Otto Ballon

as Karel Pálený

Marie Ježková

as Barča