Hard to Be a God

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 25, 1990

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

France, Germany, Soviet Union, Switzerland

Production

B.A. Produktion,ZDF,Sovinfilm,Hallelujah Films,Dovzhenko Film Studios,Garance Films,Mediactuel,Studio Dowschenko Kiew

Cast

Edward Żentara,Vyacheslav Ganenko,Pierre Clémenti,Regimantas Adomaitis,Arnis Līcītis,Gennadiy Ivanov,Christine Kaufmann,Taras Kirejko,Kostiantyn Shaforenko,Zoya Nedbayand 18 more

Director

Peter Fleischmann

Writer

Peter Fleischmann,Jean-Claude Carrière,Pierre Christin,Arkadiy Strugatskiy,Dal Orlov,Boris Strugatskiy

Producer

Peter Fleischmann,Angelika Stute,Valentina Rydvanova,Vladimir Knyazev,Willi Segler,Dominique Vignet

Cinematography

Jerzy Gościk,Pavel Lebeshev,Klaus Müller-Laue

Music

Jürgen Fritz

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0097292