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Hard To Be A God (1989 Film)
''Hard to Be a God'' (german: Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, russian: Трудно быть богом, french: Un dieu rebelle) is a West German-Soviet- French-Swiss science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann released in 1989, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Grant Stevens performed the title song, while the rest of the musical score was written and played by Hans-Jürgen Fritz, ex-keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Triumvirat. Plot In their third millennium, the people of Earth have found a peaceful life, both large and small. This is possible because they control their emotions extremely and, above all, rely on reason. On a distant planet, however, they find a medieval civilization of humans that they now use to test whether people really no longer have any barbaric instincts, they are poor and ignorant people. For this purpose, the scout Anton is released to live in the middle of the people, in whose eye a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Fleischmann
Peter Fleischmann (26 July 1937 – 11 August 2021) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He worked also as an actor, cutter, sound engineer, interviewer and speaker. Fleischmann belonged to the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. He is known for directing the 1969 '' Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern'' (''Hunting Scenes from Bavaria''), but he produced films of many genres. Life and career Peter Fleischmann was born in Zweibrücken. He studied at the (German Institute of Film and Television, DIFF) in Munich and Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (''IDHEC'') in Paris. He had contact with representatives of the French Nouvelle Vague movement, and became a friend of Jean-Claude Carrière, with whom he later wrote screenplays. After years as an assistant director, he became a director in 1963 in short films and children's films. In 1967, he directed a documentary, ', about the subculture, which anticipated the gereration conflicts of the 1968 studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Film
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Melies' '' A Trip to the Moon'' (1902) employed trick photography effects. The next major example (first in feature length in the genre) was the film ''Metropolis'' (1927). From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968), the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Science Fiction Action Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Films
The year 1989 involved many significant films. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. * A director's cut of ''Lawrence of Arabia'' is released with a 227-minute length. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A. Harris under the supervision of director David Lean. * April 23 – ''Field of Dreams'', starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released. * May 24 – '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series. * June 13 – The James Bond film ''Licence to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Works By Arkady And Boris Strugatsky
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis (31 January 1937 – 20 June 2022) was a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He was also active in Russia and Germany. Career Adomaitis was born in Šiauliai. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Vilnius University. Later he studied in Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius Conservatoire. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. Adomaitis has received many awards of recognition. In 1988 he with another 34 prominent people created Sąjūdis, Sąjūdis Reform Movement, which eventually led to the declaration of independence of Lithuania on 11 March 1990. He lived in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where he worked as an actor at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elguja Burduli
Elguja Vladimirovich Burduli ( ka, ელგუჯა ვლადიმერის ძე ბურდული; 1 April 1941 — 5 March 2022) was a Soviet and Georgian film actor, singer. Life and career Burduli was born in Tbilisi on 1 April 1941. In 1959 he entered the evening department of the Georgian Technical University and studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering until 1969. He was a lifeguard on the Tbilisi Sea (1958–1969), a member of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet (1961–1964) and a worker at filling station (1964–1984). His acting career started in 1974. In 2021, Burduli was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi. Burduli died on 5 March 2022, at the age of 80. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gluzsky
Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Глу́зский; 20 November 1918 – 15 June 2001) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He starred in the 1972 film, ''Monologue'', which was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. An actor in more than 130 films between his film debut 1939 and death in 2001, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky was born in Kiev in 1918. He worked at a factory before World War II and made his film debut as a Mosfilm acting studio student, appearing in diverse episodic roles in Grigori Roshal's ''The Oppenheim Family'', Konstantin Yudin's '' A Girl with a Personality'', and Vsevolod Pudovkin's '' Minin and Pozharsky'' in 1939. He graduated from the studio in 1940 and joined the troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army, fought as a soldier in World War II, and worked in Moscow after his discharge.Rollberg, Peter (2009). ''Historical Dictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre André Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Life and career Born in Paris to an unknown father and Rose Clémenti, a Corsican concierge whose surname he took, Clémenti had a difficult childhood and took refuge in literature and the theatre. He studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in Yves Allégret's '' Jack of Spades'' ("Chien de pique", 1960), performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Possibly his best remembered role was as the gangster lover/client of the bourgeois prostitute (Catherine Deneuve) in '' Belle de jour'' (1967) directed by Luis Buñuel, in whose other film ''The Milky Way'' (1969) he played the Devil. He worked with several other European directors, including highly regarded films of the era, such as ''The Leopard'' (Luchino Visconti, 1963), ''Pigsty'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969) and ''The Conformist'' (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, and Bertolucci's ''Partner'', 1968 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Zentara
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned. Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumvirat
Triumvirat was a West German progressive rock band from Cologne in then-West Germany. They became, during the 1970s, a key figure in Eurock, the progressive rock of continental Europe whose German variant is called krautrock. The name Triumvirat comes from the Latin word ''triumvirate'', which refers to a group of three powerful individuals. Members of the original band were Hans-Jürgen Fritz (aka Jürgen Fritz) on keyboards, Werner Frangenberg on bass and vocals, and drummer-percussionist-lyricist Hans Bathelt. However, that line-up would be in a constant state of flux over the band's career, with each album featuring at least one different member. The band was often criticized for the similarity of their sound to British band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, something that band members may have had in mind when they wrote the song "Lucky Girl" for their ''Illusions on a Double Dimple'' album, perhaps in response to one of ELP's greatest hits "Lucky Man (Emers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Fritz
Jürgen Fritz (born March 12, 1953 in Köln) is a German musician. He was the keyboard player in progressive rock band Triumvirat. He also composed the film score to the 1989 science fiction film ''Hard to Be a God'' and also published a solo album in 1990, ''Millennium''. In 1986-1988 he collaborated with German disco group Bad Boys Blue as arranger and keyboardist. Discography Albums With Triumvirat: – Singles ; * "Be Home for Tea" / "Broken Mirror" (1972) Harvest – 1C 006-29 976 * "Ride in the Night" / "Sing Me a Song" (1973) Harvest – 1C 006-30 407, EMI Electrola – 1C 006-30 407 U * "Dancer's Delight" / "Timothy" (1973) Harvest – 1C 006-30 484, EMI Electrola – 1C 006-30 484 * "Dimplicity" / "Million Dollars" (1974) Harvest, EMI Electrola - 1C 006-30 576 * "Take a Break Today" / "The Capitol of Power" (1976) Harvest, EMI Electrola 1C 006-31 609 * "Waterfall" / "Jo Ann Walker" (1978) Harvest, EMI Electrola 1C 006-45 189 * "The Hymn" / "Dance on the Vulcano" (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
