Based on Ivan Turgeyev'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.

Starring:

John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese, Marius Goring, Dandy Nichols, Richard Warwick, Keith Bell, Johannes Schaaf, John Osborne, Thomas Margulies, Florian Lindinger, Otto Vogler, Gisela Bock, Josef Jofbauer

Genre:

Drama, History, Romance