Virginity
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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)
Status: Released
Released Date: 1937-11-04
Runtime: 83 mins
Director: Otakar Vávra
Spoken language: Český
Genres: Drama
Original title: Virginity
Production Companies: Lucernafilm
Production Countries: Czechoslovakia
Cast
Lída Baarová
Jaroslava Skorkovská
František Kreuzmann
Ladislav Boháč
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Adina Mandlová
Božena Šustrová
Jaroslav Průcha
Vítězslav Boček
Bedřich Veverka
Otto Ballon
Anna Steimarová
Marie Ježková
Zdeněk Gina Hašler
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