 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  (qv) as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy s father ( Maximilian Schell  (qv)). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970 s Academy Awards.