- Country: France, Soviet Union, Switzerland, West Germany
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Release: 1991-08-07
- Director: Peter Fleischmann
- Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière , Pierre Christin , Peter Fleischmann , Dal Orlov
- Language: German
- Stars: Edward Zentara , Edward Zentara , Aleksandr Filippenko , Hugues Quester , Anne Gautier , Christine Kaufmann , Andrei Boltnev , Pierre Clémenti , Mikhail Gluzskiy , Elguja Burduli , Birgit Doll
- Runtime: 119 min
- Awards: 4 wins & 3 nominations
- AKA: Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein , El poder de un dios (Spain) , Важко бути богом (Ukraine) , El poder de un dios (Mexico) , Hard to Be a God , Трудно е да бъдеш Бог (Bulgaria) , Un dieu rebelle (France, French Republic) , Hard to be a God (United Kingdom) , 惑星アルカナル 〜宇宙からの使者〜 (Japan) , Trudno byt bogom (Russian Federation) , Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein (Germany) , Trudno być Bogiem (Poland) , Hard to Be a God (United States of America) , Nehéz istennek lenni (Hungary) , Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein , É Difícil Ser Deus (Brazil) , Трудно быть богом (Russian Federation) , È difficile essere un dio (Italy) , It's Hard to Be a God (United States of America)
- Plot: Another planet in the period of medieval times. 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. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
- IMDB:tt0097292
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein Cast · · · ALL
Peter Fleischmann
Director
Edward Zentara
Rumata / Anton
Aleksandr Filippenko
Reba
Andrei Boltnev
Budach
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Hauk
Hugues Quester
Suren
Anne Gautier
Kyra
Christine Kaufmann
Okana
Pierre Clémenti
King
Elguja Burduli
baron Pampa
Birgit Doll
Anka
Werner Herzog
Mita / Richard
Regimantas Adomaitis
Richard Kondor
Thomas Schücke
Jan
Lev Perfilov
fake Budakh
Gayle Hunnicutt
Nina Ilyina
Siula
Vyacheslav Ganenko
Budakh's pupil
Arnis Licitis
Don Ripat
Konstantin Shaforenko
Gennadiy Ivanov
Taras Kirejko
Anatoly Slivnikov