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)
Genre: Drama
Stars: Lída Baarová, Jaroslava Skorkovská, František Kreuzmann, Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Adina Mandlová
Crew: Otakar Vávra (Director), Jan Kohout (Editor), Walter Schorsch (Assistant Director), Marie Majerová (Novel), A. J. Urban (Screenplay), František Čáp (Screenplay)
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Český
Studio: Lucernafilm
Runtime: 83 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 04, 1937
IMDb: 5.7
Keywords:based on novel or book
