Virginity (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)
Director:
Otakar Vávra
Writers:
A. J. Urban, František Čáp, Marie Majerová, Otakar Vávra.
 |
Lída Baarová as Hana Poláčková |
 |
Jaroslava Skorkovská as Hanina matka |
 |
František Kreuzmann as Hanin otčím |
 |
Ladislav Boháč as Pavel Jimeš |
 |
Zdeněk Štěpánek as Josef Nevostrý |
 |
Adina Mandlová as Lili |
 |
Božena Šustrová as Mary |
 |
Jaroslav Průcha as Rudolf Res |
 |
Vítězslav Boček as Hejtmánek |
 |
Bedřich Veverka as MUDr. Mikula |
 |
Otto Ballon as Karel Pálený |
 |
Anna Steimarová as |
 |
Marie Ježková as Barča |
|
Zdeněk Gina Hašler as |
 |
Jan W. Speerger as |
 |
Milada Smolíková as |
 |
Milka Balek-Brodská as |
 |
Jarmila Bechyňová as Tereza |
 |
František Filipovský as Jenda |
|
Hanuš Bárta as |
|
Fráňa Vajner as |
 |
Ella Nollová as |
 |
Marie Grossová as |
 |
Alois Dvorský as |
|
Václav Menger as |
|
René Kubínský as |
|
Elsa Vetešníková as |
|
Marie Popelková as |
|
Marie Holanová as |
 |
Eliška Pleyová as |
| Directing | Otakar Vávra | Director |
| Editing | Jan Kohout | Editor |
| Directing | Walter Schorsch | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Marie Majerová | Novel |
| Writing | A. J. Urban | Screenplay |
| Writing | František Čáp | Screenplay |
| Writing | Marie Majerová | Screenplay |
| Writing | Otakar Vávra | Screenplay |
| Camera | Jan Roth | Director of Photography |
| Art | Štěpán Kopecký | Production Design |
| Sound | Josef Zora | Sound |
| Production | Jan Sinnreich | Production Manager |
| Sound | Roman Blahník | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Antonín Čejka | Lyricist |
