Hard to be a God

This is bait for anons to ask what is kino

what is this forced meme faggotry

Oh there's some lovely filth over here

I watched it when it came out. It has an interesting cinematography, I like how the actors seem to realize your presence as an audience. There is no music or any form of art to be found, except for Don Rumata's jazz flute, which becomes the last shred of appreciation of art and beauty. It's literally perfect, it really immersed your soul into the backwardness and nastiness of Arkanar, while at the same time contemplate the situation of our society today where art is gradually replaced by the perversion that stemmed from nihilism ideology.

I have one criticism for this motion picture though. A kino shouldn't focus on story or plot, but the story in this movie while minimal is pretty hard to follow, probably because we aren't Russian thus not familiar with how the dialogues truly work. Another criticism is how this film lack philosophical commentary, unlike Tarkovsky's films. But that's okay, that's not the point of it because it's supposed to show you a criticism on ugliness, not beautiful poetry. This is no Andrei Rubleov after all.

Whereas Andrei Rubleov is a story about the awakening of artistic integrity in the midst of chaos, Hard to be A God is about finding a solution to overcome that chaos. But both have one thing in common, which is about finding harmony in an ill designed world. Aleksei German's kino might not be as spiritual as Tarkovsky's absolute kino, but German certainly offered exalting audio visual experience and the same anti-symbolism idea of Tarkovsky.

6 years of filming and 7 years of editing truly worth it. Aleksei was a very dedicated director who sacrificed everything for art.

THIS KINO IS NOT FOR THE IMBECILE TO WATCH GET THE FUCK BACK TO Holla Forums YOU VIRGIN CUCK FAGGOT

It's a criticism on communism and bolshevism. They're nothing but shit.

Sorry Holla Forums, but that's hilariously wrong. It's based on a book written by a pair of Soviet Sci-fi authors (who were allowed to get published, hint hint), and it's blatantly based on Marx's theories of historical materialism. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar: it's a story about how shitty feudal society was before Lenin and Stalin modernized Russia.

Yup. It's commie propaganda.

Aleksei German is famous for being one of those directors who loathed and criticized communism though. His other post cold war film called "Khrustalyov, My Car" is openly anti communist.

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Doesn't change the source material. There's nothing in the film adaptation that changes the message of the book. And I doubt that Aleksei was a fan of feudal Russia either. I think a proper Russian just plain hates Russia and hates himself. Russian government has literally never been good.

The novel itself was a form of criticism on Stalinist Soviet and a wish that Soviet under Nikita Khrushchev would be any better. German perceived this as a criticism on the whole Soviet era, on both the oppressive government and the dumb peasants who feel like there is nothing wrong with Bolshevism. Yes you're right, German hated Czarist Russia as well.