Hard to Be a God (2013 film)

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Hard to Be a God
Film poster
Directed by	Aleksei German
Written by	Aleksei German Svetlana Karmalita
Based on	Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Starring	Leonid Yarmolnik
Cinematography	Vladimir Ilyin Yuri Klimenko
Edited by	Maria Amosova
Music by	Viktor Lebedev
Production companies	Lenfilm Studio Sever Studio Telekanal Rossiya
Release dates	13 November 2013 (2013-11-13) (Rome) 27 February 2014 (2014-02-27) (Russia)
Running time	177 minutes
Countries	Russia Czech Republic
Language	Russian
Budget	USD$7 million
Box office	$35,919[1]

Hard to Be a God (Russian: Трудно быть богом, romanized: Trudno byt' bogom) is a 2013 Russian epic medieval science fiction film^[2] 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 from Earth to the planet Arkanar, which is inhabited by a race of humans identical to those of Earth. Their civilization has not progressed beyond a civilization that is culturally and technologically nearly identical to medieval Europe. One reason may be the militantly anti-intellectual attitude of Arkanar: Anyone whom the inhabitants of the planet consider to be an "intellectual" is instantly executed. The Earth scientists are ordered not to interfere and to conceal their identities; but one of them, Rumata, wishes to stop the senseless murders of brilliant minds and is forced at last to pick a side.