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

Status

Released

Release date

November 4, 1937

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Lucernafilm

Cast

Anna Steimarová,Elsa Vetešníková,Hanuš Bárta,Marie Grossová,Marie Holanová,Božena Šustrová,František Filipovský,František Kreuzmann,Fráňa Vajner,Milka Balek-Brodskáand 20 more

Director

Otakar Vávra

Writer

Marie Majerová,Antonín Čejka,Otakar Vávra,A. J. Urban,František Čáp

Cinematography

Jan Roth

Music

Roman Blahník

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0166302