Underplayed Gems

First Love (1970)

First Love poster
Original title
Erste Liebe
Directed by
Maximilian Schell
Genre
drama film, coming-of-age film
Country
Germany, Switzerland
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage boy becomes obsessed with a young woman who moves in next door. He experiences first love and heartbreak as he realizes she has secret romantic entanglements.

melancholicnostalgicslow-burnromanticbittersweetintimatepoignant

What happens

First Love (German: Erste Liebe) is a 1970 film, written, directed, produced and starred in by Austrian director Maximilian Schell. It is an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's 1860 novella of the same name, starring Schell, Dominique Sanda, and John Moulder-Brown. First Love was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 43rd Academy Awards as a Swiss entry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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