First Love
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Maximilian Schell
John Moulder-brown
Dominique Sanda
Maximilian Schell
Valentina Cortese
Marius Goring
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the days before the 1917 Revolution Alexander, a 16-year-old boy vacationing with his parents, becomes attracted to Sinaida, the 21-year-old daughter of their neighbor, Princess Zasekina, an impoverished aristocrat. Alexander is the youngest of Sinaida's many suitors. When the men play a game of chance, Alexander wins a kiss from Sinaida and falls deeply in love with her. Overwhelmed with jealousy, Alexander follows her everywhere, but she returns his affection only fleetingly. Finally, he is heartbroken and shocked when he learns that his father has been committing adultery with her. Years later, after war and revolution have swept the country, Alexander hears that Sinaida has married, and he decides to visit her. When he arrives at the house, however, he is told that she recently died in childbirth.
Director
Maximilian Schell
Cast
John Moulder-brown
Dominique Sanda
Maximilian Schell
Valentina Cortese
Marius Goring
Dandy Nichols
Richard Warwick
Keith Bell
Johannes Schaaf
John Osborne
Crew
Don Black
Anders Bodin
Georg Focking
Peter Gauhe
Sidney Glazier
Hans Herbert Gossman
John Gould
Eva Haffenrichter
Dagmar Hirtz
Dagmar Hirtz
Tibor Inkey
Dezso Jutasi
Janos Krasznai
Ricarda Krehl
Barry Levinson
Dieter Lohmann
Mark London
Mafilm (hungary)
Margarethe Von Noe
Sven Nykvist
Istvan Pazstor
Otto Pischinger
Viktor Rusalem
Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell
Jorg Schmidt-reitwein
Paul Schöler
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Foreign Language Film
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Hungary. Released in Switzerland and West Germany in 1970 as Erste Liebe.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States July 10, 1970
Shown at San Sebastian Film Festival July 10, 1970.
Based on the 1860 short story "Pervaya lyubov" by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in Biblioteka dlya chteniya.
Directorial debut for actor Maximilian Schell.
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States July 10, 1970 (Shown at San Sebastian Film Festival July 10, 1970.)
