Virginity (1937)

Virginity (1937)

1937-11-04 Czechoslovakia 83 Min. PG-13
5.3 7 votes

Overview

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)

Cast

Lída Baarová is Hana Poláčková
Hana Poláčková
Jaroslava Skorkovská is Hanina matka
Hanina matka
František Kreuzmann is Hanin otčím
Hanin otčím
Ladislav Boháč is Pavel Jimeš
Pavel Jimeš
Zdeněk Štěpánek is Josef Nevostrý
Josef Nevostrý
Adina Mandlová is Lili
Lili
Božena Šustrová is Mary
Mary
Jaroslav Průcha is Rudolf Res
Rudolf Res
Vítězslav Boček is Hejtmánek
Hejtmánek
Bedřich Veverka is MUDr. Mikula
MUDr. Mikula
Otto Ballon is Karel Pálený
Karel Pálený
Anna Steimarová is

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