影片以谢尔在马琳•黛德丽的巴黎住所对时年81岁的后者的数日采访为基础，在其拒绝出镜和讨论私人生活的情况下，导演将电影代表作、电视演出片段和新闻录像重新编排，并于次年搬演了采访景象，再现剧组克服拍摄障碍的过程，不掩偷窥调查氛围。黛德丽于采访中对与其合作过的众多演员和导演做出评价，也回顾了自己二战时期的作为，并追溯自己在柏林的早年时光。影片在捕捉传奇人物的时代精神的同时记录下导演个人的探索旅程。（豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and interference from political interests. This is an existential whodunit, but a good one, and like any good whodunit, ends with a very surprising conclusion, which will be spoiled for you if you read much of anything at all about the movie.

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

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

一名著名的德国商人因车祸身亡，当地报纸随即开始挖掘他的过去并发现了他黑暗的一面，即他在第二次世界大战期间希腊的往事。