Drama
A party is organised at kindergarten for the birthday of six-year-old Pooria. But the star of the party is a hired actress dressed as Cinderella who is the centre of everyone's attention. While the birthday party is being filmed with the style of a home video, little Pooria…

Cinderella
Clown
Pooria

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)