First Love

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. 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... more

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. 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. For plot details, see First Love the novella by Ivan Turgenev. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065703/ less