Virginity
04/11/1937
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)
Movie Information
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
Božena Šustrová
as Mary
Jaroslav Průcha
as Rudolf Res
Vítězslav Boček
as Hejtmánek
Bedřich Veverka
as MUDr. Mikula
Otto Ballon
as Karel Pálený
Anna Steimarová
as
Marie Ježková
as Barča
Zdeněk Gina Hašler
as
Jan W. Speerger
as
Milada Smolíková
as
Milka Balek-Brodská
as
Jarmila Bechyňová
as Tereza
František Filipovský
as Jenda
Hanuš Bárta
as
Fráňa Vajner
as
Ella Nollová
as
Marie Grossová
as
Alois Dvorský
as
Václav Menger
as
René Kubínský
as
Elsa Vetešníková
as
Marie Popelková
as
Marie Holanová
as
Eliška Pleyová
as
