Virginity
Panenství
Release: 1937-11-04
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 5.3
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)
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production Companies
Lucernafilm
Cast
Lída Baarová
as Hana Poláčková
Vítězslav Boček
as Hejtmánek
Jan W. Speerger
František Kreuzmann
as Hanin otčím
Božena Šustrová
as Mary
Jaroslav Průcha
as Rudolf Res
Bedřich Veverka
as MUDr. Mikula
Zdeněk Štěpánek
as Josef Nevostrý
Anna Steimarová
Marie Ježková
as Barča
Milka Balek-Brodská
Alois Dvorský
Adina Mandlová
as Lili
Eliška Pleyová
Jaroslava Skorkovská
as Hanina matka
Ladislav Boháč
as Pavel Jimeš
Jarmila Bechyňová
as Tereza
Marie Grossová
Milada Smolíková
František Filipovský
as Jenda
Ella Nollová
