Hard to Be a God | |
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Directed by | Peter Fleischmann |
Written by | Jean-Claude Carrière |
Starring |
Werner Herzog Alexander Philippenko Edward Żentara |
Music by | Hans-Jürgen Fritz |
Cinematography |
Jerzy Goscik Pavel Lebeshev Klaus Müller-Laue |
Edited by | Marie-Josée Audiard Christian Virmond |
Release date
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1989 |
Running time
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119 min. |
Country | Soviet Union West Germany |
Language | German |
Hard to Be a God (German: Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, Russian: Трудно быть богом) is a joint USSR-Germany science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann released in 1989, based on the novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
Grant Stevens performed the title song, while the rest of the musical score was written and played by Hans-Jürgen Fritz, ex-keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Triumvirat. .