History of the Arkanar Massacre is a Russia

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 directed by Aleksei German. Based on the novel Hard to Be a God

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by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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Filming processed since autumn 2000 (Czech Republic

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) up to August 3, 2006 (Lenfilm

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 studios, Saint Petersburg

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, Russia

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). Now it is in the editing and post-production stage.

Film was reported to be renamed recently to the History of the Arkanar Massacre . The press has also mentioned alternative title The Carnage in Arkanare, and a film script published under the title "What said the tobacconist from Tobacco Street".

Plot

On another planet, which goes through its Middle Ages, a group of historians from Earth live pretending to be average people. The main character, known as Don Rumata, is disgusted by cruelties he observes on everyday basis but is prohibited by his superiors from interfering and thus changing the natural course of history of the planet. The only thing the historians have a right to do is to protect and help few individuals who seem to be different from everybody else and can benefit the entire planet through their knowledge and ideas. Rumata has to find one of these people, Budakh, and rescue him from the hands of Don Reba, a grey cardinal ruling for a weak king and later, an insane tyrant.

Cast

• Leonid Yarmolnik
  Leonid Yarmolnik
  Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.-Biography:Leonid Yarmolnik was born on January, 22nd, 1954 in Grodekovo of Primorsky Krai to the family of the Soviet Army officer. In 1960th Yarmolnik's family has located in Lvov. Leonid studied there at musical...
  
  - Don Rumata
• Dmitri Vladimirov
• Laura Pitskhelauri
• Aleksandr Ilyin - Arata
• Yuri Tsurilo - Don Pampa
• Yevgeni Gerchakov - Budakh
• Aleksandr Chutko - Don Reba
• Oleg Botin - Bucher
• Pyotr Merkuryev

External links

18 frames of the film (black and white) A fragment of the director's screenplay