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

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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