Hard to Be a God (2013)
- Original title
- Трудно быть богом
- Directed by
- Aleksei Yuryevich German
- Genre
- drama film, science fiction film, dystopian film
- Country
- Russia
- Runtime
- 2h 57m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 167 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Earth scientists visit a planet where the society is stuck in the Middle Ages. Intellectuals are being killed and one scientist decides to break the rules and fight against the slaughter.
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What happens
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. The Earth scientists are ordered not to interfere and to conceal their identities but one of them, wishing to stop the senseless murders of brilliant minds, must eventually pick a side. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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