Drama
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)
Directed by
Otakar Vávra
Lída Baarová
Hana Poláčková
Adina Mandlová
Lili
František Filipovský
Jenda
Milada Smolíková
Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Jimeš
Marie Ježková
Barča
Jan W. Speerger
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Josef Nevostrý
Alois Dvorský
Milka Balek-Brodská
Vítězslav Boček
Hejtmánek
František Kreuzmann
Hanin otčím
Bedřich Veverka
MUDr. Mikula
Marie Grossová
Jaroslav Průcha
Rudolf Res
Božena Šustrová
Mary
Anna Steimarová
Jarmila Bechyňová
Tereza
Ella Nollová
Jaroslava Skorkovská
Hanina matka
Eliška Pleyová
Otto Ballon
Karel Pálený
Hanuš Bárta
Fráňa Vajner
Václav Menger
René Kubínský
Elsa Vetešníková
Marie Popelková
Marie Holanová

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