Hard to Be a God (1990)

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Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein (Original Title)

StoryLine

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...

Details

Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction

Country: France Germany Soviet Union Switzerland

Original Language: de

Release Date: 25/01/1990

Companies: B.A. Produktion Garance Films Hallelujah Films Mediactuel Sovinfilm Studio Dowschenko Kiew ZDF

Run Time: 119 min

Popularity: 3.221

Spoken Languages: Deutsch

Status: Released