- Country: Russia
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Release: 2000-10-16
- Director: Vladimir Menshov
- Writers: Marina Mareeva , Vladimir Menshov
- Language: Russian
- Stars: Vera Alentova , Anatoliy Lobotskiy , Aleksandr Feklistov , Gérard Depardieu , Irina Skobtseva , Vladlen Davydov , Lyudmila Ivanova , Larisa Udovichenko , Vladimir Eryomin , Marina Dyuzheva
- Runtime: 135 min
- Awards: 3 wins & 3 nominations
- AKA: Зависть богов (Russian Federation) , Zazdrość bogów (Poland) , The Envy of Gods , Завистта на боговете (Bulgaria) , Dievų pavydas (Lithuania) , Zavist bogov
- Plot: 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 editor in television, she has a son, a graduate of the school, and her husband Sergey (Alexander Feklistov) is quite a successful Soviet writer. One day to visit them coming Frenchman Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), with whom he met Sergey while working on a book about the French Resistance, accompanied by a French translator of Russian descent named André (Anatoly Lobotsky). André also have a family in Paris. However, the meeting turned their lives. André falls in love with Sonia at first sight and emphatically looking for a new meeting with her. Sonia, a faithful wife, educated in the Soviet tradition of chastity, at first refuses; moreover that employees of Soviet television are not allowed to enter unsupervised contact with foreigners. But André still gets her, and Sonia also possessed a violent passion. She discovers such strong feelings about the possibility of which she previously doesn't know. A few days of his life and Sonia and Andre were absolutely happy. But they soon had to separate because their countries belong to different worlds, divided by the Iron Curtain.
- IMDB:tt0261450
The Envy of Gods Cast · · · ALL
Vladimir Menshov
Director
Vera Alentova
Sonya
Anatoliy Lobotskiy
André
Aleksandr Feklistov
Sergey
Gérard Depardieu
Bernard
Irina Skobtseva
Vladlen Davydov
Sonya's father
Lyudmila Ivanova
Sergey's mother
Larisa Udovichenko
Irina
Marina Dyuzheva
Natasha
Viktor Pavlov
Vilen
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Sonya's son
Vladimir Eryomin
Igor Kirillov
Lyudmila Artemeva
Natalya Ivanova-Fenkina
Aleksandr Oleshko
Nina Agapova
Natalya Khorokhorina
Vladimir Kachan
Tatyana Parkina
assistent rezhissera na TV