Hard to Be a God | |
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Directed by | Peter Fleischmann |
Written by | Jean-Claude Carrière Dal Orlov Peter Fleischmann |
Starring | Alexander Philippenko Edward Żentara Hugues Quester Christine Kaufmann Andrei Boltnev Gayle Hunnicutt Werner Herzog |
Cinematography | Jerzy Goscik Pavel Lebeshev Klaus Müller-Laue |
Edited by | Marie-Josée Audiard Christian Virmond |
Music by | Hans-Jürgen Fritz |
Production companies | Hallelujah-Film GmbH Dovzhenko Film Studios V/O Sovinfilm Garance Films Mediactuel S.A. B.A. Filmproduktion GmbH ZDF |
Distributed by | Jugendfilm-Verleih GmbH |
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Running time | 119 min. |
Countries | West Germany Soviet Union France Switzerland |
Language | German |
Hard to Be a God (German: Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, Russian: Трудно быть богом, French: Un dieu rebelle) is a West German-Soviet-French-Swiss science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann and released in 1989, the movie based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.[2]
Grant Stevens performed the title song, and the rest of the musical score was written and played by Hans-Jürgen Fritz, the ex-keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Triumvirat.