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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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
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