"Hard to Be a God" is a live action movie from 1989, so this one is already over 25 years old. It was a co-production of 4 countries and one of them being West Germany turned this one into a German-language film, even if dubbed versions exist of course. The director is Peter Fleischmann and he is also one of the writers from this film, possibly his most known career achievement more than a quarter century later. Fleischmann will turn 80 next year. Basically you could say that this film is all about Edward Zentara as he plays the character who has easily the most screen-time. Also for this late Polish actor, it is probably his most known work and occasionally he looks like a Kinski with long grey hair. Christine Kaufmann plays one of the female protagonists and the reason why I gut curious about this film is Werner Herzog who also appears as an actor in here. Sadly, he has very little screen time only and his character is much more talked about than actually seen.
This is a science fiction film and I may be a bit biased as this is probably not my favorite genre, but I still did not end up enjoying the watch. It is futuristic, but yet also has a very medieval touch to it, which is not too common for this genre. The sets and costumes were fine and so were the main character's looks which made the film occasionally interesting, but I still felt that this was mostly style over substance. The story never had me even close to the edge of my seat. And what is even more serious is that the film is longer than two hours, so if you will be bored as much as I was, then you will be bored for a very long time. The dialogues also felt pretty pretentious with how the characters were talking. These 105 minutes I would really only recommend to the biggest SciFi fans who have seen (almost) everything else that this genre has to offer. Yes this one here is a bit of a different film, but different does not necessarily equal good and here is the evidence. Thumbs down. Not recommended.
This is a science fiction film and I may be a bit biased as this is probably not my favorite genre, but I still did not end up enjoying the watch. It is futuristic, but yet also has a very medieval touch to it, which is not too common for this genre. The sets and costumes were fine and so were the main character's looks which made the film occasionally interesting, but I still felt that this was mostly style over substance. The story never had me even close to the edge of my seat. And what is even more serious is that the film is longer than two hours, so if you will be bored as much as I was, then you will be bored for a very long time. The dialogues also felt pretty pretentious with how the characters were talking. These 105 minutes I would really only recommend to the biggest SciFi fans who have seen (almost) everything else that this genre has to offer. Yes this one here is a bit of a different film, but different does not necessarily equal good and here is the evidence. Thumbs down. Not recommended.