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Release Date:
November 4, 1937
Original Title:
Panenství
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Lucernafilm
Production Countries:
Czechoslovakia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 83
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)
Assistant Director:
Walter Schorsch
Director:
Otakar Vávra
Director of Photography:
Jan Roth
Editor:
Jan Kohout
Lyricist:
Antonín Čejka
Novel:
Marie Majerová
Original Music Composer:
Roman Blahník
Production Design:
Štěpán Kopecký
Production Manager:
Jan Sinnreich
Screenplay:
František Čáp
Otakar Vávra
A. J. Urban
Marie Majerová
Sound:
Josef Zora
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