And God Created Woman (1988 film) And God Created Woman (1988 film) And God Created Woman is a 1988 film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano and Frank Langella. It has the same title as the 1956 French film "Et Dieu… créa la femme" ("And God created woman") starring Brigitte Bardot, also directed by Vadim, but has a completely different story. Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) is a convict in a New Mexico prison. She manages to escape, but mistakenly hitches a ride in the limo of James Tiernan (Frank Langella), a politician who was visiting the prison as part of
Vadim the Bold Vadim the Bold Vadim the Bold was a legendary chieftain of the Ilmen Slavs who led their struggle against Rurik and the Varangians in the 9th century. According to the Nikon Chronicle, a historic 16th-century Russian chronicle that covered events of 859–1520 CE, the Novgorodians broke into rebellion against Rurik, their ruler, but his Varangian druzhina managed to quell the riots and murdered their leader, Vadim. The first Russian historian, Vasily Tatishchev, conjectured that Vadim's mother was the elder daughter of Gostomysl. Hence, Vadim was Rurik's elder cousin and had a better claim to the throne. After Tatischev's publications, Vadim