Hard to Be a God

Hard to Be a God

119 mins | Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction | Jan. 25, 1990

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...

Hard to Be a God

119 mins | Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction | Jan. 25, 1990

Hard to Be a God
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...
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers ZDF, B.A. Produktion, Garance Films, Sovinfilm, Hallelujah Films, Mediactuel, Studio Dowschenko Kiew
Original title Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
Directors Peter Fleischmann
Writers Dal Orlov, Boris Strugatskiy, Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Pierre Christin, Peter Fleischmann, Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast

Edward Żentara

as Rumata / Anton

Andrei Boltnev

as Budach

Hugues Quester

as Suren

Anne Gautier

as Kyra

Elguja Burduli

as Baron Pampa / baron Pampa

Birgit Doll

as Anka

Werner Herzog

as Mita / Richard

Regimantas Adomaitis

as Richard Kondor

Lev Perfilov

as fake Budakh

Nina Ilyina

as Siula

Vyacheslav Ganenko

as Budakh's pupil

Arnis Līcītis

as Don Ripat