First Love(Erste Liebe)

Name: First Love
Genre: Drama, Romance

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West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary · 1970
Rated R · 1h 29m
Director Maximilian Schell
Starring John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese
Genre Drama, Romance

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.