Hard to Be a God

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Hard to Be a God

Release Date: January 25, 1990

Year	:	1990
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
Production Companies	:	ZDF, B.A. Produktion, Garance Films, Sovinfilm, Hallelujah Films, Mediactuel, Studio Dowschenko Kiew
Director	:	Peter Fleischmann
Producers	:	Willi Segler, Peter Fleischmann, Angelika Stute, Dominique Vignet, Vladimir Knyazev, Valentina Rydvanova
Writers	:	Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Fleischmann, Pierre Christin, Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Dal Orlov
RunTime	:	119 mins.

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...