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Hard to Be a God (1990) [N/A]

Featuring:
Edward Zentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester

Written by:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Pierre Christin
Peter Fleischmann

Directed by:
Peter Fleischmann


Release Date:
January 25, 1990

Original Title:
Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein

Alternate Titles:
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
Hard to be a god
Nehéz istennek lenni
Un dieu rebelle

Genres:
Adventure | Drama | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
B.A. Produktion
Garance Films
Hallelujah Films
Mediactuel
Sovinfilm
Studio Dowschenko Kiew
ZDF

Production Countries:
France | Germany | Soviet Union | Switzerland

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 

Runtime: 119

Overview from TheMovieDB

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...

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Hard to Be a God (1990) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.4/10
Awards Won: 4 wins & 3 nominations

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Production

Art Designer:
Jean-Claude Mézières

Costume Design:
Baranova Tatyana
Svetlana Ulko

Director:
Peter Fleischmann

Director of Photography:
Jerzy Gościk
Pavel Lebeshev
Klaus Müller-Laue

Editor:
Marie-Josée Audiard
Christian Virmond
Natalia Akayomova

Executive Producer:
Vladimir Knyazev
Angelika Stute

Novel:
Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Boris Strugatskiy

Original Music Composer:
Jürgen Fritz

Producer:
Peter Fleischmann
Valentina Rydvanova
Willi Segler
Dominique Vignet

Production Design:
Sergey Khotimskiy
Oksana Medved

Second Unit Director:
Jerzy Hoffman

Writer:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Peter Fleischmann
Pierre Christin
Dal Orlov

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