Hard to Be a God
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Hard to Be a God

★ 6.0/10 TMDB 1990-01-25 119 min

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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Edward Żentara
Edward Żentara
Rumata / Anton
Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Filippenko
Reba
Andrei Boltnev
Andrei Boltnev
Budach
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Hauk
Hugues Quester
Hugues Quester
Suren
Anne Gautier
Anne Gautier
Kyra
Christine Kaufmann
Christine Kaufmann
Okana
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti
King
Elguja Burduli
Elguja Burduli
Baron Pampa
Birgit Doll
Birgit Doll
Anka
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Mita / Richard
Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis
Richard Kondor
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