Hard To Be A God
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2h 57m
Directed by Aleksei German | 177 mins | 2013
The final film from German, a giant of Russian cinema who died before its release, is a headlong wallow in medieval muck, a grotesque epic adapting Arkady and Boris Stugatsky’s underground science-fiction classic which follows a team of undercover scientists as they explore the squalid, viciously anti-intellectual planet Arkanar.
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