Hard to Be a God (1989 film)

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 released in 1989, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Hard to Be a God
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
Directed byPeter Fleischmann
Written byJean-Claude Carrière
Dal Orlov
Peter Fleischmann
StarringAlexander Philippenko
Edward Żentara
Hugues Quester
Christine Kaufmann
Andrei Boltnev
Gayle Hunnicutt
Werner Herzog
CinematographyJerzy Goscik
Pavel Lebeshev
Klaus Müller-Laue
Edited byMarie-Josée Audiard
Christian Virmond
Music byHans-Jürgen Fritz
Production
companies
Hallelujah-Film GmbH
Dovzhenko Film Studios
V/O Sovinfilm
Garance Films
Mediactuel S.A.
B.A. Filmproduktion GmbH
ZDF
Distributed byJugendfilm-Verleih GmbH
Release dates
12 September 1989 (Venice Film Festival)
25 January 1990 (West Germany)
May 1990 (Soviet Union)
7 August 1991 (France)
Running time
119 min.
CountriesWest Germany
Soviet Union
France
Switzerland
LanguageGerman

Grant Stevens performed the title song, and the rest of the musical score was written and played by Hans-Jürgen Fritz, ex-keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Triumvirat.

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