Hard to Be a God
Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
Release: 1990-01-25
·Runtime: 119m
·★ 5.9
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...
Production Countries
France
Germany
Soviet Union
Switzerland
Production Companies
B.A. Produktion
Garance Films
Hallelujah Films
Mediactuel
Sovinfilm
Studio Dowschenko Kiew
ZDF
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Anne Gautier
as Kyra
Birgit Doll
as Anka
Werner Herzog
as Mita / Richard
Lev Perfilov
as fake Budakh
Arnis Līcītis
as Don Ripat
Hugues Quester
as Suren,
Vyacheslav Ganenko
as Budakh's pupil
Sergey Dvoretskiy
Taras Kirejko
Anatoly Slivnikov
Pavel Romanov
Andrei Boltnev
as Budach
Christine Kaufmann
as Okana
Pierre Clémenti
as King
Elguja Burduli
as Baron Pampa, baron Pampa
Regimantas Adomaitis
as Richard Kondor
Gayle Hunnicutt
Georgi Dvornikov
Nina Ilyina
as Siula
Konstantin Shaforenko
Zoya Nedbay
Lyudmyla Lobza
Edward Żentara
as Rumata / Anton
Aleksandr Filippenko
as Reba
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Hauk