A group of scientists are sent to the planet arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. A hard god is a semiautobiographical play by peter kenna. Trudno byt bogom is a 20 russian science fiction film directed by aleksei german, based on the novel of the same name by arkady and boris strugatsky. Satou kazuma, a shutin and diehard fan of games, anime, and manga, suffers a traffic accident that would bring his disappointingly brief life to an end. E xacting in its design and disorienting in its method, hard to be a god is a vision of civilization as a mud and shitstreaked purgatory. Cats is a film directed by tom hooper with francesca hayward, jennifer hudson, judi dench, taylor swift, year. With james bowles, gloria dawn, gerry duggan, kay eklund.
In hard to be a god, there is a most curious blend of both. The book was originally due to be published by grand central publishing, an imprint of hachette book group, in april 2020, but on march 6, 2020 hachette said they would no longer publish it. At that time, i hated the film for its lack of supposed progression while it continuously delved into similar situations over and over, but since a rewatch a few months ago shifted my perspective, ive been coming back again and again to witness this strange. Set on an alien planet in the thick of an unyielding prerenaissance squalor, the late russian director aleksei germans final masterpiece is a grueling three hours of roving depravity. Title type runtime cut distributor date certificate. Stalin hangs over hard to be a god like a mordantly chortling specter. Set on a planet stuck in the dark ages, hard to be a god depicts a black and white world filled with violence, filth and crudeness, standing in as a metaphor for our own times. Aug 06, 2015 hard to be a god each shot is a vision of pandemonium. The film transcends the genres of science fiction and the medieval.
A hard god is a semiautobiographical play by peter kenna the play was very popular and has come to be regarded as an australian classic. Julian, an american fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in bangkok as a front for his drug business. Hard to be a god received universal acclaim from englishlanguage and non russianlanguage critics. Hard to be a god is a russian scifi drama, filmed in black and white, about a scientist who has been sent to live with a small community on a distant planet which resembles medieval europe.
When outlaws on the lam invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge. Strong gory images include a body being disembowelled while the heart can still be seen beating. With chad michael murray, teri polo, frances fisher, francesca eastwood. Tv series is a tv series directed by takaomi kanesaki with animation. Hard to be a god by aleksei german is one of my favorite movies ever. Oct 12, 2016 17 yearold petur has a hard time deciding what to do when he suddenly gets the opportunity to take revenge on the classmate bullying him. Hard to be a god, aleksei germans last film the new. Youll know within the first few minutes of the impossible to completely describe and classify film hard to be a god if youre going to make it through all three hours of this carnival of cinematic madness. With a plot summary that reads about as long as a short story, the concise run down of hard to be a god is best summarized as follows. Trydno byt bogom trudno byt bogom hard to be a god 20. In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling parisian metropolis. Apropos of nothing is a 2020 memoir by american filmmaker and humourist woody allen. Jan 30, 2015 the future is mired in the muddy, muddy past in hard to be a god, aleksei germans fullcontact, madly outre adaptation of the 1964 sciencefiction novel by arkady and boris strugatsky.
Hard to be a god is more in the mode of germans delirious 1998 khrustalyov, my car, in which a gregarious, hard living doctor is subject to unspeakable humiliations during the last days of the stalin regime. As scifi medieval fantasy, the late aleksei germans extraterrestrial epic makes game of. With daveed diggs, rafael casal, janina gavankar, jasmine cephas jones. Before hard to be a god was a hit video game, it was a novel by the indispensible arkady and boris strugatsky, adapted into a 1989 film starring werner herzog. With leonid yarmolnik, aleksandr chutko, yuriy tsurilo, evgeniy gerchakov. Both actors agree this scene was the hardest to shoot. Hard to be a god 1989 directed by peter fleischmann. With emmanuelle devos, suzanne clement, richard berry, sami frey. With philippa baker, simon burke, peter gwynne, dawn lake. All american official trailer hd the cw drama series youtube. Its a work of dirty, poetic beauty in which the myriad of narrative enigmas and mysteries will keep the film lodged in your brain for days after the credits finally roll. The play was very popular and has come to be regarded as an australian classic.
Adapted from the 1960s cult scifi novel hard to be a god by arkady and boris strugatsky. The members of the cryptozoological agency monarch face off against a battery of god sized monsters, including the mighty godzilla, who collides with mothra, rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three. With laetitia dosch, souleymane seye ndiaye, gregoire monsaingeon, jeanchristophe folly. A high executive is asked if shed like to be the first female ceo in a water company, ruled by the government. Hard to be a god is a film directed by aleksey german with leonid yarmolnik, yuriy tsurilo, evgeniy gerchakov, aleksandr chutko, year. An employee of the institute of experimental history from earth, who is send under the name of noble don rumata of estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of arkanar. Exodus gods and kings is a story about humans and god. We remember moments icelandicnorwegian short film youtube. A scifi epic with palpable connections to the present, hard to be a god caps director aleksei germans brilliant filmography with a final masterpiece. When a star high school football player from south central is recruited to play for beverly hills high school, two separate worlds collide. Legendary russian scifi authors arkady and boris strugatsky whose roadside picnic was filmed as stalker by andrei tarkovsky wrote the source novel, and adapting. A group of scientists is sent to the planet arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. The boondock saints is a film directed by troy duffy with willem dafoe, sean patrick flanery, norman reedus, david della rocco, year.
Hard to be a god each shot is a vision of pandemonium. Hard to be a god is more in the mode of germans delirious 1998 khrustalyov, my car, in which a gregarious, hardliving doctor is subject to unspeakable humiliations during the last days of the stalin regime. Risking their lives for their beliefs of veritas truth and aequitas justice, the boondock saints are hyped by the public, for they are doing good, which only few dare to admit. Hard to be a god calgary underground film festival.
The plot follows a young sheep farmer in yorkshire whose life is transformed by a romanian migrant worker. The future is mired in the muddy, muddy past in hard to be a god, aleksei germans fullcontact, madly outre adaptation of the 1964 sciencefiction novel by arkady and boris strugatsky. Hard to be a god, aleksei germans last film the new york. Hard to be a god is a 20 russian science fiction film directed by aleksei german, based on the novel hard to. The members of the cryptozoological agency monarch face off against a battery of god sized monsters, including the mighty godzilla, who collides with mothra, rodan, and his. Hard to be a god 2014 teaser hd science fiction film. Based on a book by the strugatsky brothers, hard to be a god is a three hour medieval scifi film from aleksei german. May 26, 2014 hard to be a god is brutal and visceral, visually and aurally dense, with a loose narrative thread and unheroic protagonist. While on probation, a man begins to reevaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
Trudno byt bogom is a 1964 science fiction novel by soviet writers arkady and boris strugatsky, set in the noon universe. A tribe of cats called the jellicles who must decide yearly which one will ascend to the heaviside layer and come back to a new jellicle life. Only god forgives is a film directed by nicolas winding refn with ryan gosling, kristin scott thomas, vithaya pansringarm, rhatha phongam, year. With edward zentara, aleksandr filippenko, hugues quester, anne gautier. Documentary, michael douglas cake, liana montoro, tyrone benskin, mizinga mwinga. With jim brown, lee van cleef, fred williamson, catherine spaak. Scientists trapped on a medieval hellworld, in hard to be a. Based on the novel with the same name by arkady and boris strugatsky. A 16 year old falls in love with his best mate in this drama set in a working class irish family in 1940s australia. How the human considered themselves god and above all. May 17, 2018 all american is coming wednesdays this fall to the cw.
Veteran documentary filmmaker and hipster lech kowalski creates this film about his friend and hard partying rock god johnny thunders, member of legendary protopunk band the new york dolls. A troubled young man on the run from the law sets forth to help out three old sanctified spirits and a beautiful young woman to restore first greater saint new mount pilgrim baptist church to its former glory and place in the heart of the black community. Hard to be a god 2004 hard to be a god 2004 nick clement 4 years ago. Jan 27, 2012 hard candy was shot in sequence except for the opening scene, which was filmed last. Following the recent release of aleksei germans longawaited, grimly visceral masterpiece and testament, hard to be a god, spectacle is proud to present peter fleischmanns much less lauded, sometimes heavily ridiculed, adaptation of the same source novel. Jan 30, 2015 hard to be a god is more in the mode of germans delirious 1998 khrustalyov, my car, in which a gregarious, hardliving doctor is subject to unspeakable humiliations during the last days of the stalin regime. Mar 19, 2015 the final project of russian filmmaker aleksei yuryevich german, hard to be a god is a philosophical sciencefiction epic inspired by the 1964 cult novel written by brothers boris and arkady. Hard to be a god official uk trailer a film by aleksei. And how one god tends to show his power with the help of moses who i thought through this movie was just an messenger free the people who have been. Its a universal drama about humanity, with our capacity to be both humane and inhumane. Hard to be a god is a strange, intense experience and the depth of its immersion will sink you deeper into the movies own peculiar strands and doesnt let go until the end. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the us to collect the.
At the clinton street theater wednesday, november 18th. A joint ussrgermany science fiction film directed by peter fleischmann released in 1989. Russian director aleksei germans final film is the subject of discussion in this episode. Hard to be a god 20, directed by aleksey german film. Feeling that gods will to rid earth from all human evil was given to them as a mission, they set out to do their divine deed.
Nearly finished at the time of his death in 20, the russian directors magnum opus. Leonid yarmolnik, yuriy tsurilo, evgeniy gerchakov. Hard to be a god 20 is a testing journey through a hellish medieval world, where idiocracy reigns. Hard candy es una pelicula dirigida por david slade con patrick wilson, ellen page, sandra oh, odessa rae, ano. The material was also the source of peter fleischmanns 1989 film es ist. Jan 20, 2014 hard to be a god is a russian science fiction film directed by aleksei german. King of the monsters is a film directed by michael dougherty with vera farmiga, kyle chandler, millie bobby brown, bradley whitford, year. Hard to be a god is a 20 russian science fiction art film directed by aleksei german, based on the novel of the same name by arkady and boris strugatsky. Based on the novel hard to be a god by arkady and boris strugatsky. Aug 28, 2018 official youtube channel for 20th century fox movies. The best films of 2015 according to filmaffinity users the best films of 2015 according to filmaffinity users ranking order obeys to several criteria.
Its hard to imagine this film could have been even better, had german lived to finish it. The luxuriantly detailed, nearly threehour film adapts the 1964 strugatsky brothers novel about scientists in the future who journey to another planet thats literally stuck in the dark ages, and then live. Trudno byt bogom is a 20 russian science fiction art film directed by aleksei german, based on the novel of the same name by arkady and boris strugatsky. Been obsessed with the tangible, filthy, disgusting environment that hard to be a god embodies ever since i first watched it. Hard to be a god british board of film classification. Night shyamalan has made a lot of movies, including the sixth sense, glass, unbreakable, and split. Don rumata, recognized by the locals as a sort of futuristic god, tries to save the local intelligentsia from their punishment.