
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Cast

Edward Żentara
Rumata / Anton

Aleksandr Filippenko
Reba

Andrei Boltnev
Budach

Mikhail Gluzskiy
Hauk

Hugues Quester
Suren, Unknown

Anne Gautier
Kyra

Christine Kaufmann
Okana

Pierre Clémenti
King

Elguja Burduli
Baron Pampa, baron Pampa

Birgit Doll
Anka

Werner Herzog
Mita / Richard

Regimantas Adomaitis
Richard Kondor
Thomas Schücke
Jan

Lev Perfilov
fake Budakh

Gayle Hunnicutt
Unknown

Nina Ilyina
Siula
Alicia Omelchuk
Unknown

Vyacheslav Ganenko
Budakh's pupil

Serhii Dvoretskyi
Unknown

Arnis Līcītis
Don Ripat

Kostiantyn Shaforenko
Unknown

Georgi Dvornikov
Unknown
Gennadiy Ivanov
Unknown

Zoya Nedbay
Unknown

Taras Kirejko
Unknown

Liudmyla Lobza
Unknown

Anatoly Slivnikov
Unknown

Pavel Romanov
Unknown
Crew

Peter Fleischmann
Director, Writer, Producer

Jean-Claude Carrière
Writer
Dal Orlov
Writer

Pierre Christin
Writer

Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Novel

Boris Strugatskiy
Novel
Marie-Josée Audiard
Editor
Christian Virmond
Editor
Natalia Akayomova
Editor

Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
Klaus Müller-Laue
Director of Photography
Jerzy Gościk
Director of Photography

Vladimir Knyazev
Executive Producer
Angelika Stute
Executive Producer
Valentina Rydvanova
Producer
Willi Segler
Producer
Dominique Vignet
Producer
Sergey Khotimskiy
Production Design
Oksana Medved
Production Design
Baranova Tatyana
Costume Design
Svetlana Ulko
Costume Design

Jerzy Hoffman
Second Unit Director
Jürgen Fritz
Original Music Composer
Jean-Claude Mézières
Art Designer



















