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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 was originally released as Ein Leibe


First Love (German: Erste Liebe) 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 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.


Release Date: October 10, 1970


Distrib: UMC Films