Hard to Be a God (1990)

  • 16
  • 01/25/1990 (DE)
  • Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
  • 1h 59m

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...

Peter Fleischmann

Director, Writer

Jean-Claude Carrière

Writer

Arkadiy Strugatskiy

Novel

Boris Strugatskiy

Novel

Dal Orlov

Writer

Pierre Christin

Writer

Cast

Edward  Żentara's headshot

Edward Żentara

Rumata / Anton
Aleksandr Filippenko's headshot

Aleksandr Filippenko

Reba
Andrei Boltnev's headshot

Andrei Boltnev

Budach
Mikhail Gluzskiy's headshot

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Hauk
Hugues Quester's headshot

Hugues Quester

Suren
Anne Gautier's headshot

Anne Gautier

Kyra
Christine Kaufmann's headshot

Christine Kaufmann

Okana
Pierre Clémenti's headshot

Pierre Clémenti

King

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