BASICALLY: A mash-up of Russian arthouse and 80s rock. In 1989 German film director Peter Fleischmann adapted the classic Russian science fiction novel ‘Hard to be a God’.
A co-production with Russia, the film was very much a product of its time and the end credits scrolled to this amazing power ballad, sung – in English – by Australian vocalist Grant Stevens.
Russian director Aleksei German (confused yet?) took 15 years to make his own adaptation of ‘Hard to be a God’ – a critically-acclaimed, black-and-white arthouse epic running almost three hours long … and featuring amongst other things a high-definition vision of human misery, brutality, ignorance, blood, mud and excrement. Enjoy.
The Science bit
Visuals from trailers:
Kinolorber (US and Canada): http://bit.ly/340gePi
Cannes Film Festival (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMPy…
Arrow Video (UK): https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail…
Audio:
Soundtrack rarity performed by Grant Stevens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_S…)
posted by Allan José: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMKf…
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