(Panenství)

Content: 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)

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

83 minutes

Year:

1937

Directors:

Otakar Vávra

Production companies:

Lucernafilm

Actors:

Hana Poláčková

Hanina matka

Hanin otčím

Pavel Jimeš

Josef Nevostrý

Crews:

Editor

Assistant Director

Director

Novel

Screenplay