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...
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Directing | Peter Fleischmann | Director |
Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
Writing | Peter Fleischmann | Writer |
Writing | Arkadiy Strugatskiy | Novel |
Writing | Boris Strugatskiy | Novel |
Writing | Pierre Christin | Writer |
Writing | Dal Orlov | Writer |
Production | Peter Fleischmann | Producer |
Production | Valentina Rydvanova | Producer |
Production | Willi Segler | Producer |
Production | Dominique Vignet | Producer |
Production | Vladimir Knyazev | Executive Producer |
Production | Angelika Stute | Executive Producer |
Sound | Jürgen Fritz | Original Music Composer |
Art | Sergey Khotimskiy | Production Design |
Art | Oksana Medved | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Baranova Tatyana | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Svetlana Ulko | Costume Design |
Art | Jean-Claude Mézières | Art Designer |
Directing | Jerzy Hoffman | Second Unit Director |
Camera | Jerzy Gościk | Director of Photography |
Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
Camera | Klaus Müller-Laue | Director of Photography |
Editing | Marie-Josée Audiard | Editor |
Editing | Christian Virmond | Editor |
Editing | Natalia Akayomova | Editor |