Fresh
The late director Aleksei Guerman's last film is a grandly arbitrary carnival of neo-medieval depravity. It's also a mudpunk allegory of Russian barbarism and backwardness.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Hard to Be a God
2014 · 2h 57m · Not Rated
Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
Aleksei German
Overview
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. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The roiling setting alone enforces a medieval mind-set that feels genuine: brutal yet often jovially rambunctious and crude, pre-psychological in its sense of the cheapness of life and yet rich with local custom and detail.
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Fresh
It is grotesque and deranged and Hieronymus Bosch-like, and damn if it isn't a bona fide vision-but of what, exactly?
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Fresh
An epic lurch through the circle of the Inferno Dante left out, where we are buried chin-deep in wet manure.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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