Virginity

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)

Details

Cast

Lída Baarová

Hana Poláčková

Jaroslava Skorkovská

Hanina matka

František Kreuzmann

Hanin otčím

Ladislav Boháč

Pavel Jimeš

Zdeněk Štěpánek

Josef Nevostrý

Adina Mandlová

Lili

Božena Šustrová

Mary

Jaroslav Průcha

Rudolf Res

Vítězslav Boček

Hejtmánek

Bedřich Veverka

MUDr. Mikula

Otto Ballon

Karel Pálený

Anna Steimarová

Marie Ježková

Barča

Zdeněk Gina Hašler

Jan W. Speerger

Milada Smolíková

Milka Balek-Brodská

Jarmila Bechyňová

Tereza

František Filipovský

Jenda

Hanuš Bárta