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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)Read moreLess
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)
The story
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 & crew
Lída BaarováHana Poláčková
Jaroslava SkorkovskáHanina matka
František KreuzmannHanin otčím
Ladislav BoháčPavel Jimeš
Zdeněk ŠtěpánekJosef Nevostrý
Adina MandlováLili
Božena ŠustrováMary
Jaroslav PrůchaRudolf Res
Vítězslav BočekHejtmánek
Bedřich VeverkaMUDr. Mikula
Anna SteimarováCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Otakar Vávra
- Editor
- Jan Kohout
- Screenplay
- A. J. Urban
- Screenplay
- František Čáp
- Screenplay
- Marie Majerová
- Screenplay
- Otakar Vávra
- Director of Photography
- Jan Roth
- Original Music Composer
- Roman Blahník