Hard to Be a God (1990)
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...
Director: Peter Fleischmann
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Edward Żentara as Rumata / Anton |
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Aleksandr Filippenko as Reba |
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Andrei Boltnev as Budach |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy as Hauk |
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Hugues Quester as Suren |
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Anne Gautier as Kyra |
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Christine Kaufmann as Okana |
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Pierre Clémenti as King |
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Elguja Burduli as Baron Pampa |
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Birgit Doll as Anka |
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Werner Herzog as Mita / Richard |
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Regimantas Adomaitis as Richard Kondor |
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Elguja Burduli as baron Pampa |
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Thomas Schücke as Jan |
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Lev Perfilov as fake Budakh |
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Gayle Hunnicutt as |
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Nina Ilyina as Siula |
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Alicia Omelchuk as |
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Vyacheslav Ganenko as Budakh's pupil |
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Serhii Dvoretskyi as |
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Arnis Līcītis as Don Ripat |
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Kostiantyn Shaforenko as |
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Georgi Dvornikov as |
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Gennadiy Ivanov as |
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Zoya Nedbay as |
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Taras Kirejko as |
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Liudmyla Lobza as |
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Anatoly Slivnikov as |
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Pavel Romanov as |
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Hugues Quester as |
| Directing | Peter Fleischmann | Director |
| Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
| Writing | Peter Fleischmann | Writer |
| Writing | Arkadiy Strugatskiy | Novel |
| Writing | Boris Strugatskiy | Novel |
| Writing | Pierre Christin | Writer |
| Writing | Dal Orlov | Writer |
| Production | Peter Fleischmann | Producer |
| Production | Valentina Rydvanova | Producer |
| Production | Willi Segler | Producer |
| Production | Dominique Vignet | Producer |
| Production | Vladimir Knyazev | Executive Producer |
| Production | Angelika Stute | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Jürgen Fritz | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Oksana Medved | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Baranova Tatyana | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Svetlana Ulko | Costume Design |
| Art | Jean-Claude Mézières | Art Designer |
| Directing | Jerzy Hoffman | Second Unit Director |
| Camera | Jerzy Gościk | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Klaus Müller-Laue | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Marie-Josée Audiard | Editor |
| Editing | Christian Virmond | Editor |
| Editing | Natalia Akayomova | Editor |
| Art | Sergei Khotimsky | Production Design |
| Visual Effects | Yuri Lemeshev | Visual Effects Camera |