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Hard to Be a God
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Hard to Be a God

1990-01-25 · 119 min · ★ 6.0

Drama · Adventure · Science Fiction

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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Directors
Peter Fleischmann
Production companies
B.A. Produktion, Garance Films, Hallelujah Films, Mediactuel, Sovinfilm, ZDF, Dovzhenko Film Studios
Countries
France, Germany, Soviet Union, Switzerland
Status
Released

Top Cast

Edward ŻentaraEdward ŻentaraRumata / Anton
Aleksandr FilippenkoAleksandr FilippenkoReba
Andrei BoltnevAndrei BoltnevBudach
Mikhail GluzskiyMikhail GluzskiyHauk
Hugues QuesterHugues QuesterSuren
Anne GautierAnne GautierKyra
Christine KaufmannChristine KaufmannOkana
Pierre ClémentiPierre ClémentiKing
Elguja BurduliElguja BurduliBaron Pampa
Birgit DollBirgit DollAnka
Werner HerzogWerner HerzogMita / Richard
Regimantas AdomaitisRegimantas AdomaitisRichard Kondor
Elguja BurduliElguja Burdulibaron Pampa
Thomas SchückeJan
Lev PerfilovLev Perfilovfake Budakh
Gayle HunnicuttGayle Hunnicutt
Nina IlyinaNina IlyinaSiula
Alicia Omelchuk
Vyacheslav GanenkoVyacheslav GanenkoBudakh's pupil
Serhii DvoretskyiSerhii Dvoretskyi

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