First Love (1970 film)

Infobox Film
name = First Love


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director = Maximilian Schell
producer = Barry Levinson
Maximilian Schell
writer = Screenplay:
Maximilian Schell
Novella:
Ivan Turgenev
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starring = Maximilian Schell
Dominique Sanda
John Moulder-Brown
music = Mark London
cinematography = Sven Nykvist
editing = Dagmar Hirtz
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released = flagicon|USA October 7, 1970
flagicon|DEU April 23, 1971
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country = West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary
language = German
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imdb_id = 0065703

"First Love" ("Erste Liebe" in German) is a 1970 film, written, directed, and starred in by Austrian director Maximilian Schell. It is an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's homonymous novella starring Schell, Dominique Sanda, and John Moulder-Brown.

The film is quite obscure, but in 1971, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards, losing to Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, which ironically starred Sanda. It won the 1971 German Film Award. In the United Kingdom, it is frequently shown on Actionmax on Sky Digital.

Plot

For plot details, see First Love the novella by Ivan Turgenev.

Cast

*John Moulder-Brown as Alexander
*Dominique Sanda as Sinaida
*Maximilian Schell as Father
*Valentina Cortese as Mother
*Marius Goring as Dr. Lushin
*Dandy Nichols as Princess Zasekina
*Richard Warwick as Lt. Belovzorov
*Keith Bell as Count Malevsky
*Johannes Schaaf as Nirmatsky
*John Osborne as Maidanov

Awards

*Academy Awards, USA:1971 Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (Switzerland)
*German Film Awards:1971 Won the "Film Award in Gold" for "Outstanding Feature Film"
*San Sebastián International Film Festival:1970 Maximilian Schell Won the "Silver Seashell" award

IMDB Page

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065703/