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
Jan W. Speerger
Alois Dvorský
Eliška Pleyová
Lída Baarová
Hana Poláčková
Anna Steimarová
Božena Šustrová
Mary
Adina Mandlová
Lili
Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Jimeš
František Filipovský
Jenda
Marie Ježková
Barča
Milka Balek-Brodská
Milada Smolíková
Jarmila Bechyňová
Tereza
František Kreuzmann
Hanin otčím
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Josef Nevostrý
Ella Nollová
Vítězslav Boček
Hejtmánek
Marie Grossová
Jaroslav Průcha
Rudolf Res
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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