Hard to Be a God

Based On the book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Hard to Be a God (Russian: Трудно быть богом, romanized: Trudno byt' bogom) is a 2013 Russian epic medieval science fiction film directed by Aleksei German who co-wrote the screenplay with Svetlana Karmalita. It was his last film and it is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A team of scientists travels to the planet Arkanar, which is inhabited by humans identical to those of Earth. Arkanar civilization is culturally and technologically similar to medieval Europe, and anyone considered "intellectual" is executed.

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Release date:

November 13, 2013

Director:

Aleksei Yuryevich German

Cast:

Leonid Yarmolnik, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov, Valentin Golubenko, Yevgeny Vazhenin

Genre:

Science Fiction, Drama, Dystopian

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Year page:

2013 in adaptations