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Erste Liebe (First Love) (1970)

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Release Date: Oct 7, 1970 Wide

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Producer/director Maximillian Schell adapted the screenplay of First Love from a story by Ivan Turgenev. John Moulder Brown plays Alexander, a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with 21-year-old Sinaida (Dominique Sanda). Despite a great deal of emotional turmoil, exacerbated by the fact that Sinaida has been sleeping with Alexander's father, Alexander insists upon pursuing the relationship. His sexual coming-of-age is played out against the ominous backdrop of pre-World War II Europe. The film

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Directed By: Maximilian Schell

In Theaters: Oct 7, 1970 Wide

Cast

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

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This is an awfully strange adaptation of the classic Turgenev novella. Dominique Sanda is gorgeous, and of course Sven Nykvist photographs her to perfection - visually it's all quite lush and colorful - but the thin storyline can't quite take such overmelodramatization. (A lot of it seems to be just a framework for

December 8, 2008

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