Hard to Be a God (1989 film)

Hard to Be a God (German: Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, Russian: Трудно быть богом, French: Un dieu rebelle) is a West German-Soviet-French-Swiss science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann released in 1989, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.[2]

See also: Hard to Be a God (2013 film)
Hard to Be a God
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
Directed byPeter Fleischmann
Written byJean-Claude Carrière
Dal Orlov
Peter Fleischmann
StarringAlexander Philippenko
Edward Żentara
CinematographyJerzy Goscik
Pavel Lebeshev
Klaus Müller-Laue
Edited byMarie-Josée Audiard
Christian Virmond
Music byHans-Jürgen Fritz
Production
companies
Hallelujah-Film GmbH
Dovzhenko Film Studios
V/O Sovinfilm
Garance Films
Mediactuel S.A.
B.A. Filmproduktion GmbH
ZDF
Distributed byJugendfilm-Verleih GmbH
Release dates
12 September 1989 (Venice Film Festival)
25 January 1990 (West Germany)
May 1990 (Soviet Union)
7 August 1991 (France)[1]
Running time
119 min.
CountriesWest Germany
Soviet Union
France
Switzerland
LanguageGerman

Grant Stevens performed the title song, while the rest of the musical score was written and played by Hans-Jürgen Fritz, ex-keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Triumvirat.

Plot

In their third millennium, the people of Earth have found a peaceful life, both large and small. This is possible because they control their emotions extremely and, above all, rely on reason.

On a distant planet, however, they find a medieval civilization of humans that they now use to test whether people really no longer have any barbaric instincts, they are poor and ignorant people. For this purpose, the scout Anton is released to live in the middle of the people, in whose eye a camera is implanted, which transmits everything he sees to a spaceship orbiting the planet.

Living in the city of Arkanar under the identity of the nobleman Don Rumata, Anton finds it increasingly difficult to endure the misery of the populace oppressed by the king and the ruthless advisor Don Reba. He tries by to speed up their progress and initiate a kind of enlightenment, although he is strictly forbidden from interfering with the world he encounters.

He plans a revolution and is almost worshiped as a god for his abilities; however, he falls in love for a native woman and have new friends who must defend. In the bloody clashes of a civil war that follow, the king and Don Reba die.

While Arkanar sinks into anarchy and terror, Anton aka Don Rumata try to help the poor, ignorant and primitive people and his new friends, but is picked up from the spaceship who landing in the night in the middle of the town because the test is over: it was Anton whose reactions were to be tested by their civilization.

Cast

References

 
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  1. "Hard to be a God (1989) - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. Es ist schwer, ein Gott zu sein, auf moviepilot.de



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