Hard to Be a God

- language: Russian
- director: Aleksei German
- actor: Aleksandr Ilin Evgeniy Gerchakov Laura Lauri Leonid Yarmolnik Pyotr Merkuryev Yuriy Tsurilo
Synopsis:
On another planet going through its Middle Ages, a group of historians from a more advanced Earth live masquerading as commoners.
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