---
title: 'Hard to Be a God (1989)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Fleischmann'
released: '1989-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 135
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
  - 'Switzerland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-to-be-a-god-1989'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097292/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard to Be a God (1989)

1989 · 135 min · Action, Adventure, Science Fiction · Soviet Union, Germany, France, Switzerland

Original title: Трудно быть богом

## Synopsis

Hard to Be a God 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Fleischmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-fleischmann)
- **Screenplay:** [Peter Fleischmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-fleischmann), [Boris Strugatsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-strugatsky), [Arkady Strugatsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/arkady-strugatsky), [Jean-Claude Carrière](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-claude-carriere), [Pierre Christin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-christin), [Dal Orlov](https://cinepixo.com/people/dal-orlov)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jürgen Fritz](https://cinepixo.com/people/jurgen-fritz)
- **Director of Photography:** [Pavel Lebeshev](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-lebeshev)

## Cast

- [Oleg Yankovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-yankovsky)
- [Edward Żentara](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-zentara)
- [Hugues Quester](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugues-quester)
- [Werner Herzog](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-herzog)
- [Pierre Clémenti](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-clementi)
- [Regimantas Adomaitis](https://cinepixo.com/people/regimantas-adomaitis)
- [Arnis Līcītis](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnis-licitis)
- [Aleksandr Filippenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-filippenko)
- [Andrei Boltnev](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-boltnev)
- [Birgit Doll](https://cinepixo.com/people/birgit-doll)
- [Anne Gautier](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-gautier)
- [Marcus Off](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcus-off)
- [Gayle Hunnicutt](https://cinepixo.com/people/gayle-hunnicutt)
- [Mikhail Gluzsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-gluzsky)
- [Christine Kaufmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/christine-kaufmann)

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