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 (Germany) Sirius le Distributeur (France) |
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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.
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.