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Virginity (1937)

Virginity (1937)

Drama
Release Date: 1937, November 4
Directors: Otakar Vávra
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Lucernafilm, Lucernafilm
Cast: Marie Ježková, Lída Baarová, František Filipovský, Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Jarmila Bechyňová, Bedřich Veverka, Jaroslav Průcha, František Kreuzmann, Vítězslav Boček, Adina Mandlová, Božena Šustrová

Overview:

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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