Genres
Production Companies
Garance Films
Hallelujah Films
Mediactuel
Sovinfilm
Studio Dowschenko Kiew
ZDF
Hard to Be a God (Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein)
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...
Key Crew
Director: Peter Fleischmann
Writer: Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Fleischmann, Pierre Christin, Dal Orlov
Producer: Peter Fleischmann, Valentina Rydvanova, Willi Segler, Dominique Vignet
Director of Photography: Jerzy Gościk, Pavel Lebeshev, Klaus Müller-Laue
Top Cast
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
Videos
Church of Film: Hard to Be a God trailer
