Virginity (Panenství) 86 years old

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)

Credits

Adina Mandlová as Lili

František Filipovský as Jenda

Milka Balek-Brodská as

Lída Baarová as Hana Poláčková

František Kreuzmann st. as Hanin otčím

Jan W. Speerger as

Virginity Cast

Name	Character
Adina Mandlová She was 27, 81 years old when she died	as Lili
František Filipovský He was 30, 86 years old when he died	as Jenda
Milka Balek-Brodská She was 48, 72 years old when she died
Lída Baarová She was 23, 86 years old when she died	as Hana Poláčková
František Kreuzmann st.	as Hanin otčím
Jan W. Speerger He was 42, 55 years old when he died
Zdeněk Štěpánek He was 41, 71 years old when he died	as Josef Nevostrý
Jaroslav Průcha He was 39, 65 years old when he died	as Rudolf Res

Virginity Crew

Name	Department
František Čáp as Writer. He was 23 (58) years old when He died	Writing
Otakar Vávra as Director. He was 26 (100) years old when He died	Directing
Otakar Vávra as Writer. He was 26 (100) years old when He died	Writing
Jan Kohout as Editor. He was 23 (now 63) years old	Editing
Stepán Kopecký as Art Direction.	Art

Virginity (86 years)

Release day: Thursday, November 04, 1937
Runtime: 83 minutes