[Python] Convert spark DataFrame column to python list

I work on a dataframe with two column, mvv and count.

+---+-----+
|mvv|count|
+---+-----+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 |


i would like to obtain two list containing mvv values and count value. Something like

mvv = [1,2,3,4]
count = [5,9,3,1]


So, I tried the following code: The first line should return a python list of row. I wanted to see the first value:

mvv_list = mvv_count_df.select('mvv').collect()
firstvalue = mvv_list[0].getInt(0)


But I get an error message with the second line:

AttributeError: getInt
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