Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Unfortunately the movie Hard to Be a God is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Peter Fleischmann | Director |
Writing | Arkadiy Strugatskiy | Novel |
Writing | Peter Fleischmann | Writer |
Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
Writing | Boris Strugatskiy | Novel |
Production | Peter Fleischmann | Producer |
Production | Willi Segler | Producer |
Sound | Jürgen Fritz | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Pierre Christin | Writer |
Writing | Dal Orlov | Writer |
Art | Oksana Medved | Production Design |
Art | Sergey Khotimskiy | Production Design |
Art | Jean-Claude Mézières | Art Designer |
Production | Valentina Rydvanova | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Baranova Tatyana | Costume Design |
Production | Vladimir Knyazev | Executive Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Svetlana Ulko | Costume Design |
Production | Angelika Stute | Executive Producer |
Production | Dominique Vignet | Producer |
Directing | Jerzy Hoffman | Second Unit Director |
Editing | Christian Virmond | Editor |
Camera | Jerzy Gościk | Director of Photography |
Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
Editing | Marie-Josée Audiard | Editor |
Camera | Klaus Müller-Laue | Director of Photography |
Editing | Natalia Akayomova | Editor |