Hard to Be a God

Hard to Be a God (1990)

Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein

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...

Date of release
1990-01-25
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (52)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
Director
Peter Fleischmann

Casting

  • Edward Żentara — Rumata / Anton
  • Aleksandr Filippenko — Reba
  • Andrei Boltnev — Budach
  • Mikhail Gluzskiy — Hauk
  • Hugues Quester — Suren
  • Anne Gautier — Kyra
  • Christine Kaufmann — Okana
  • Pierre Clémenti — King
  • Elguja Burduli — Baron Pampa
  • Birgit Doll — Anka
  • Werner Herzog — Mita / Richard
  • Regimantas Adomaitis — Richard Kondor

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