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)
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30 people
Lída Baarová
Hana Poláčková
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Jaroslava Skorkovská
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Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Jimeš
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Kariéra
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Josef Nevostrý
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Ikarie XB 1
Adina Mandlová
Lili
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Božena Šustrová
Mary
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Jaroslav Průcha
Rudolf Res
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Vítězslav Boček
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Bedřich Veverka
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Karel Pálený
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Kristian
Otakar Vávra Director · František Čáp Screenplay Marie Majerová Screenplay
First release November 4, 1937 · Produced in XC · Original title Panenství
Production
Lucernafilm
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XC
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Original title
Panenství
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · November 4, 1937
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No release date listed for United States.
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