Hard to Be a God(Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein)
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West Germany, France, Soviet Union · 1990
1h 59m
Director Peter Fleischmann
Starring Edward Żentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Andrei Boltnev, Mikhail Gluzskiy
Genre Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
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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...
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