Panenství 1937

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:

Lída Baarová
Hana Poláčková 

Jaroslava Skorkovská
Hanina matka 

František Kreuzmann
Hanin otčím 

Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Jimeš 

Zdeněk Štěpánek
Josef Nevostrý 

Adina Mandlová
Lili 

• Virginity