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

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