Hard to Be a God (1989 film)

Hard to Be a God
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
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
Release dates	12 September 1989 (1989-09-12) (Venice Film Festival) 25 January 1990 (1990-01-25) (West Germany) May 1990 (1990-05) (Soviet Union) 7 August 1991 (1991-08-07)[1]
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.