- First Love (1970 film)
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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 SchellDominique 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 = WestGermany ,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
Austria n directorMaximilian Schell . It is an adaptation ofIvan Turgenev 's homonymousnovella starring Schell,Dominique Sanda , andJohn Moulder-Brown .The film is quite obscure, but in 1971, it was nominated for
Best Foreign Language Film in theAcademy Awards , losing toVittorio de Sica 'sIl Giardino dei Finzi-Contini , which ironically starred Sanda. It won the 1971German 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
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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 MaidanovAwards
*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" awardIMDB Page
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065703/
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