Virginity

Virginity

1937
1h 23m
5.3

5.3/10

7 votes • View on IMDb
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)

Status: Released

Language: CS

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Production Information

Production Companies
Lucernafilm
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
Czech

Quick Facts

Original Title Panenství
Release Date November 4, 1937
Status Released
Language CS
IMDb ID tt0166302

Cast

Lída Baarová
Lída Baarová

Hana Poláčková

Jaroslava Skorkovská
Jaroslava Skorkovská

Hanina matka

František Kreuzmann
František Kreuzmann

Hanin otčím

Ladislav Boháč
Ladislav Boháč

Pavel Jimeš

Zdeněk Štěpánek
Zdeněk Štěpánek

Josef Nevostrý

Adina Mandlová
Adina Mandlová

Lili

Božena Šustrová
Božena Šustrová

Mary

Jaroslav Průcha
Jaroslav Průcha

Rudolf Res

Vítězslav Boček
Vítězslav Boček

Hejtmánek

Bedřich Veverka
Bedřich Veverka

MUDr. Mikula

Otto Ballon
Otto Ballon

Karel Pálený

Anna Steimarová
Anna Steimarová

Key Crew

Otakar Vávra
Director
A. J. Urban
Screenplay
František Čáp
Screenplay
Marie Majerová
Screenplay
Otakar Vávra
Screenplay