Zavist bogov (2000) User Reviews

middle age russian woman , drops panties ... for LUST or LOVE?

[afterdarkpak · 5/10 · 25 July 2020]

Divorce rate in Russia is in 2nd in the whole world and still they dont understand thing. in name of LOVE or SEX unfaithful, cheating is ok for them.

well in the start of the movie, everything seems fine, even the husband is broke but he love the wife and has grown up son .. but then a man try to get into her pants which first she resist alot, but later she didnt, and infact.. she fall in love. and fall hard..

-----------spoilers------------- many stupid thing in movie, including ending.

so after she having and affair and spending nights with lover but. the husband didnt care and didnt suspect anything ? which is illogical in movie, and then she tells everything to husband. and he is ok with it ? because yeh he was angry but..he wanna forget it ? that never happens in real life.

and in the end, she didnt think about her son , and she wanna commit suicide ? thats really heartless woman ever.

Compelling drama

[janeiz · 9/10 · 17 August 2005]

This story has been told many times. Married woman with half grown/up son falls in love with stranger and prepares to leave everything behind for this - last ? - great love. But the acting in this film is great, especially Vera Alentova, and the ending is heart-breaking. I also like the way in which the life of non-underground intellectuals in Moscow is depicted and the settings, the dream-like quality of the environment when life is like a dream. Like all Russian films, it tends to be a bit to long and the love of the absurd sometimes threatens to take over the story (again, when the main persons live their dream) but all in all it is such a well made and acted film it will 'stay with you' some days after you've seen it.

Mediocre but thought provoking

[Gordon-11 · 3 February 2003]

This is a film about the life of a journalist in the Soviet times, when the intellectuals wanted secretly listen to underground radios and watching Western movies which were banned by the Soviet Government.

At first, this woman was very conservative about sex. However, things rapidly changed for this woman. She met one of her husband's friend, and quickly fell in love with him. However, her lover broke the law and had to be deported. Her affair had to stop, and she went back to her husband. She was forgiven by her husband, but things were never the same again.

I think the theme of this film was not only applicable to the Soviet times, but to any country and any time point. This film is about the social and family values, and how the modern culture is having an impact on the traditional social and family values. Nowadays the meaning of a family is rapidly breaking down, and people become lost in the rapid change. In this film the woman is also lost, she became very confused about what she was doing. She kept blaming herself for cheating on her husband, and yet she was compelled to carry on.

I am quite interested in this movie, even though it was a bit boring in the beginning. The change of the woman from conservative to a temptress was interesting. In the film the change occurred quite suddenly. I would have liked to see the change elaborated more.

True love

[LarisaShvets · 10/10 · 22 November 2006]

It's one of my most favourite films as I think true love is shown in it. I even have tears when I watch it. The action takes place in the soviet times so the main heroes of the film has many difficulties because of politics. I think if action of the film takes place in our times they can be together.

To my mind excellent play of actors in the film. I understand the heroine of the film very well, her feelings and desperate desire to be with the man she loves.

When losing her only love she has no meaning of life any more. But it's good that she is saved in the end of the film because she has a son though life without somebody you love is very poor.

It's definitely 10 out of 10. Thanks for attention.