Hard to Be a God (2008 film)

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Hard to Be a God
Directed by	Aleksei German
Produced by	Lenfilm
Written by	Aleksei German Svetlana Karmalita
Starring	Leonid Yarmolnik as Don Rumata
Release date(s)	2008 (estimated)
Country	Russia-Czech Republic
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Hard to Be a God (Translit. Trudno byt' bogom, Russian: Трудно быть богом) is a Russian science fiction film directed by Aleksei German. Based on the novel with the same title by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Filming processed since autumn 2000 (Czech Republic) up to August 3, 2006 (Lenfilm studios, Saint Petersburg, Russia). Now it is in the editing and montage process.^{[citation needed]}

Film was reported to be renamed recently to the History of the Arkanar massacre (Russian: История арканарской резни, [1]).

[edit] Plot

On another planet, which goes through its middle ages, a group of historians from Earth live pretending to be average people. The main character, known as Don Rumata, is disgusted by cruelties he observes on everyday basis but is prohibited by his superiors from interfering and thus changing the natural course of history of the planet. The only thing the historians have a right to do is to protect and help few individuals who seem to be different from everybody else and can benefit the entire planet through their knowledge and ideas. Rumata has to find one of these people, Budakh, and rescue him from the hands of Don Reba, a grey cardinal ruling for a weak king and later, an insane tyrant.