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Hard to Be a God (1990)
Directed by Peter Fleischmann
Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction · 1h 59m
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Cast
Edward Żentara
Aleksandr Filippenko
Andrei Boltnev
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Hugues Quester
Anne Gautier
Christine Kaufmann
Pierre Clémenti
Elguja Burduli
Birgit Doll
Werner Herzog
Regimantas Adomaitis
Crew
- Director
- Peter Fleischmann
- Writer
- Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Fleischmann, Pierre Christin, Dal Orlov
- Novel
- Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
- Director of Photography
- Jerzy Gościk, Pavel Lebeshev, Klaus Müller-Laue
- Original Music Composer
- Jürgen Fritz
- Editor
- Marie-Josée Audiard, Christian Virmond, Natalia Akayomova
- Producer
- Peter Fleischmann, Valentina Rydvanova, Willi Segler, Dominique Vignet
Details
- Original title
- Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
- Release date
- 1990-01-25
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- France, Germany, Soviet Union, Switzerland
- Production
- B.A. Produktion, Garance Films, Hallelujah Films, Mediactuel, Sovinfilm, ZDF, Dovzhenko Film Studios