Hard to Be a God

Director: Aleksei German

2013 / 177min / DCP

The final testament from German, a giant of Russian cinema who died before its release, is a headlong wallow in medieval muck, a grotesque epic of casual barbarism adapting Arkady and Boris Stugatsky’s underground science-fiction classic of 1964—and invoking Bruegel and Bosch—which follows a team of undercover scientists as they explore the squalid, viciously anti-intellectual planet Arkanar. “Awe-inspiring.” —The Guardian

Distributor: Kino Lorber