The Envy of Gods

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The Envy of Gods
Directed byVladimir Menshov
Written byMarina Mareeva
Vladimir Menshov
Produced byVladimir Menshov
Alexander Litvinov
StarringVera Alentova
Anatoly Lobotsky
Aleksandr Feklistov
Gérard Depardieu
CinematographyVadim Alisov
Edited bySvetlana Ivanova
Music byViktor Lebedev
Production
companies
Mosfilm
Zhanr Film Studio
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

The Envy of Gods (Russian: Зависть Богов, romanizedZavist Bogov) is a 2000 Russian romantic drama film directed by Vladimir Menshov.[1][2]

Plot[edit]

In the "History" Herodotus says, "The gods do not like happy people". In ancient times, people knew why they can not demonstrate their good fortune and happiness: it can cause jealousy and anger of the gods, because they believed that happiness is their, gods, privilege, and daring people who want the same thing, should be punished.

The film takes place in early autumn 1983 in Moscow, in an atmosphere of acute cold war (including the war in Afghanistan, the incident with the South Korean "Boeing", etc.).

The main heroine of the picture Sonia (Vera Alentova) is an editor in television, she has a son, a graduate of the school, and her husband Sergei (Aleksandr Feklistov) is a quite successful Soviet writer. One day to visit them a Frenchman Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) comes, whom Sergei met while working on a book about the French Resistance, accompanied by a French translator of Russian descent named André (Anatoly Lobotsky). André also has a family in Paris. However, this meeting turns their lives upside down. André falls in love with Sonia at first sight and emphatically tries to get a new meeting with her. Sonia, a faithful wife, educated in the Soviet tradition of chastity, at first refuses; moreover employees of Soviet television are not allowed to enter in unsupervised contact with foreigners. But André still gets his way, and Sonia is also overtaken by a violent passion. She discovers such strong feelings about the possibility of which she previously did not know. For a few days of their lives Sonia and Andre are absolutely happy. But they soon have to separate because their countries belong to different worlds, divided by the Iron Curtain.

Cast[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

  1. The Long Tango
  2. Meadows
  3. The Dream No.1
  4. The Date
  5. The Catastrophy No.1
  6. Loneliness
  7. Tango `Beter` by J.Menshova
  8. Thinking about the Past No.1
  9. The Catastrophy No.2
  10. Thinking about the Past No.2
  11. Saying Good-bye
  12. Finale

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Зависть богов. Х/ф". Russia-1.
  2. ^ Почему Владимир Меньшов отказался выдвигать «Цитадель» Михалкова на «Оскар»

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