Miraculous Virgin

Jan 20, 1967

1h 33m

★ 5.0

Overview

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

Genres

Mystery

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Štúdio hraných filmov Bratislava

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Cast

Anabella

Jolanta Umecka

Tristan

Ladislav Mrkvička

Raven

Otakar Janda

Gallo

Karol Béla

Vilo

Štefan Bobota

Nephew

Marián Polonský

Walrus

František Kudláč

Procurist

Eduard Bindas

Funerally Stylist

Marta Kmuníčková

Veronika

Ružena Pavlová

Rafan

Rudolf Thrun

Nephew's mother

Mária Prechovská

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