Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein (1989) on Netflix
NR19891h 59mAdventureDramaSci-Fi
Earth's scouts on a distant medieval planet test whether humanity has shed its violent instincts. Anton lives in Arkanar as the nobleman Don Rumata, under the king and his advisor Don Reba.
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In the third millennium, Earth's people live by reason and believe they have left violence behind. A distant planet holds a human civilization still in medieval times, and Earth uses it to test whether barbaric instincts survive. Anton is one of the scouts sent to live among these people, with a camera implanted in his eye that transmits what he sees to a spaceship in orbit. In Arkanar he passes as the nobleman Don Rumata, while the king and his advisor Don Reba oppress the townspeople. Rumata cannot bear the misery around him and tries to speed the people's progress, though interference is forbidden. An elder observer warns that he has become too involved and that meddling in the planet's history is dangerous. A young commoner who cannot stand the brutality asks to stay in his house.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein (1989)
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- Filming of Hard to Be a God was due to start near Kyiv in 1986, but the Chernobyl disaster delayed the production of the West German-Soviet-French-Swiss film.
- Peter Fleischmann began developing Hard to Be a God in 1983, and in 1984 Hallelujah-Film and Sovinfilm agreed to make it the first co-production between West Germany and the Soviet Union.
- For the film, a large phantasmagoric set was built in Yalta to resemble a town from the Middle Ages.
