Hard to Be a God (1989 film)

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name = Hard to Be a God


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caption = Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
director = Peter Fleischmann
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starring = Werner Herzog,
Alexander Philippenko as Don Reba,
Eduard Zentara as Don Rumata
music = Jürgen Fritz
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released = 1989
runtime = 119 min.
country = USSR-Germany
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imdb_id = 0097292

"Hard to Be a God" (Original title - _de. Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, _ru. Трудно быть богом) is a joint USSR-Germany science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann released in 1989. Based on the novel with the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Strugatsky's main request was that the director should be of Soviet origin, possibly Aleksei German. Still, against their will, Fleischmann became the chief of this project. Because of his intractability and a difficult nature Strugatskys stopped contributing to the film and departed from the filming process. As the result the film was heavily criticized by them. ( [http://rusf.ru/abs/int.htm source in Russian] )Failed verification|date=February 2008 This led to the 2007 film development.