Love it. A great video from one of the most difficult but ultimately rewarding films of this millennium. But I always wonder why, in every post in UA-cam, the lunatic girlfriend of Don Rumata never appears, when she becomes towards the end the detonator of the ultimate chaos. The director’s previous feature, Khrustalyov My Car, is as nightmarish and awkward as Hard To Be A God, but happening in Stalinist Russia. For me this two films are a diptych and highly exasperating and engaging at the same time.
Yep, Aleksei German definitely had his own particular style. As for the girlfriend, I thought she was one of the few 'normal' people on the planet. That's why Don Rumata liked her and was quite annoyed when she got an arrow in the head.
The thing with Hard to be a God is that it’s not supposed to necessarily have a followable story with a clique or actual plot but rather to communicate a certain feeling-vibes and aesthetic-which I really enjoyed. I saw another comment in the actual movie of HtbaG in UA-cam and it said something along the lines of that Hard to be a God isn’t a movie for an actual story read and dwell on to form a cohesive idea about but rather to communicate a feeling, specifically about how one can feel trapped in a stupid, backwards, or otherwise uncivilized area or region. This could be for any specific nation.
I'm glad you made this. I didn't get much out of the film when I watched it unfortunately but it certainly has a very captivating visual style and you really put that to good use here. I might have to give it another shot.
Gherman's final definitive 2013 work. Based on the Strugatsky Brothers 1962 novel of the same name. The novel is faster paced, more humorous and sort of a fantasy action thing, Don Rumata is a quick witted, martial arts secret agent superhero who conquers everything with ease, kind of like medieval James Bond... The moral dilemma of interference in history is almost secondary in it. The triumph of backwardness, mediocrity, stupidity, darkness is just the background for some romance, intrigue, action. Gherman made the horror of a society perpetually stuck in the dark ages his central theme, in fact you see that same dread in all of his works, except the somewhat naive, debut Trial on the Road, that he made as student. After that the Soviet dread just intensified.
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The whole movie goes pretty hard tbh
Love it. A great video from one of the most difficult but ultimately rewarding films of this millennium. But I always wonder why, in every post in UA-cam, the lunatic girlfriend of Don Rumata never appears, when she becomes towards the end the detonator of the ultimate chaos. The director’s previous feature, Khrustalyov My Car, is as nightmarish and awkward as Hard To Be A God, but happening in Stalinist Russia. For me this two films are a diptych and highly exasperating and engaging at the same time.
Yep, Aleksei German definitely had his own particular style. As for the girlfriend, I thought she was one of the few 'normal' people on the planet. That's why Don Rumata liked her and was quite annoyed when she got an arrow in the head.
The 1989 film is much better
This movie is a masterpiece.
The thing with Hard to be a God is that it’s not supposed to necessarily have a followable story with a clique or actual plot but rather to communicate a certain feeling-vibes and aesthetic-which I really enjoyed. I saw another comment in the actual movie of HtbaG in UA-cam and it said something along the lines of that Hard to be a God isn’t a movie for an actual story read and dwell on to form a cohesive idea about but rather to communicate a feeling, specifically about how one can feel trapped in a stupid, backwards, or otherwise uncivilized area or region. This could be for any specific nation.
Closest we'll ever get to a Mordheim movie.
The music used is a track called '1' and can be found here: woefulbat.bandcamp.com/album/why-bother
What did I witness?
Pure madness
I'm glad you made this. I didn't get much out of the film when I watched it unfortunately but it certainly has a very captivating visual style and you really put that to good use here. I might have to give it another shot.
Thanks. I enjoyed the film a lot more the 2nd time I watched it. Also, the book is really good too.
Read the book before your re-watch. The charachters and their motivations will make a lot more sense to you
Brothuh dred?!??! Lol wtf?
This shits black metal af. Basically a backwoods 40k planet lol.
Godspeed you black emperor vibes
Gherman's final definitive 2013 work. Based on the Strugatsky Brothers 1962 novel of the same name. The novel is faster paced, more humorous and sort of a fantasy action thing, Don Rumata is a quick witted, martial arts secret agent superhero who conquers everything with ease, kind of like medieval James Bond... The moral dilemma of interference in history is almost secondary in it. The triumph of backwardness, mediocrity, stupidity, darkness is just the background for some romance, intrigue, action.
Gherman made the horror of a society perpetually stuck in the dark ages his central theme, in fact you see that same dread in all of his works, except the somewhat naive, debut Trial on the Road, that he made as student. After that the Soviet dread just intensified.
Music fits perfectly!
Two guesses for fairness. This is a Russian or Polish prodruction.
Russian
Gherman's final definitive 2013 work. Based on the Strugatsky Brothers 1962 novel of the same name.
humanity, we have only one problem...
offspring of begotten
Very sweet
I'm watching in 🇧🇷
Merci, de me faire découvrir un OVNI du cinéma russe