First Love

First Love

89 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 7, 1970

Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

First Love

89 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 7, 1970

First Love
Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Alfa Film, Seitz GmbH Filmproduktion
Original title Erste Liebe
Directors Maximilian Schell
Writers Ivan Turgenev, John Gould, Maximilian Schell

Cast

John Moulder-Brown

as Alexander

Dominique Sanda

as Sinaida

Valentina Cortese

as Mutter

Marius Goring

as Dr. Lushin

Dandy Nichols

as Prinzessin Zasekina

Richard Warwick

as Lt. Belovzorov

Keith Bell

as Graf Malevsky

Johannes Schaaf

as Nirmatsky

John Osborne

as Maidanov