Sinopsis
A group of investigators are send to the planet Arkars, which is stuck in the extraterrestrial dark ages. Over there, every artist or knowleadgeable being is subdued and annihilated. Don Rumata, tired of the harsh punishments and retaliation, is one of the anthropologists working incognito; an aristocrat and promen who many tales are tell about and who the citizens of Arkanar see as a futurist god. Breakin the no intervetion pact, due to the recent happenings, Don Rumata will try to save freethinkers and artist whose fate is sealed.
Director / Aleksei German
Screenplay / Svetlana Karmalita, Aleksei German
Adaptation from the novel written by Boris y Arkady Strugatsky
Cinematography / Vladimir Ilyin, Yuri Klimenko
Production Design / Sergei Kokovkin, Georgi Kropachev, E. Zhukova
Custome Design / Yekaterina Shapkaitz
Make up / Olga Izvekova, N. Ratkevich
Original Score / V. Lebedev
Sound / N. Astakhov
Editors / Irina Gorokhovskaya, Maria Amosova, Yevgeny Pritzker
Production Managment / Marina Dovladbegyan
Producers / Viktor Izvekov, Rushan Nasibulin
Production Companies / Studio Sever, Russia 1 TV Channel
Cast / Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov, Natalia Moteva
Rusia. 2013
Ficción, 170 min.
Aleksei German
Leningrad, 1938-2013. Director and screenwriter. He studied with Grigori Kozintsev up until 1960, he later started working in a theater befor joining the Lenfilm studio an director asistant. He made his directing debut with Sedmoy Sputnik, co-directed with Grigory Aronov in 1967. Throughout his career, several of his projects faced production or releasing problems due to official objection. In fifty years, he only managed to complete six movies, his final one being Hard to be a God which was premiered at the Rome Festival in 2013. Trial on the Road (1971) was his breaktrough film. It was banned from the shelves of the Culture Ministry for fifteen years up until its release date in 1986 during the Gorbachov era. In 1987, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, German, as a director, received the KNF prize for three of his movies: Trial on the Road, Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapshin.
Filmografia
- 2013 — Hard to Be a God
- 1998 — Khrustalyov, My Car!
- 1986 — Trial on the Road
- 1985 — My Friend Ivan Lapshin
- 1977 — Twenty Days Without War
- 1968 — Sedmoy sputnik
Festivales y Premios
- 2013 Festival de Cine de Roma
- 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam
- 2014 Festival de Cine de Londres
- 2014 Festival de Cine de Cannes
- 2014 Festival de Cine de Gotemburgo
- 2014 Festival de Cine de la Riviera Maya
- 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Vilna
- 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Seattle
- 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Karlovy Vary
- 2014 Festival de Internacional de Cine de Nueva Zelanda
- 2014 Festival de Cine New Horizons
- 2014 Festival del Nuevo Cine de Montreal
- 2014 VIENNALE
- 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
- 2015 Festival de Cine de Belgrado
- 2015 Festival Film Archives de Nueva York
- Premios Nika: Premio a Mejor actor
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- Online Film Critics Society Awards: Premio OFCS a Mejor película extranjera Russian Guild of Film Critics: Premio White Elephant a Mejor fotografía
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