If your film started shooting 15 years ago and has only just felt the tender touch of a cinema screen, the problems that caused it to stay so long in development hell are probably going to bleed into the final product. That’s not the case with Hard To Be A God, Aleksey German’s long-time-coming science fiction parable; its problems go far deeper than that.

The premise is pure brilliance: a group of scientists set down on an alien planet, currently in the throes of its own dark ages, in…
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