Is the movie Hard to Be a God available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

As the Stream Tracker team, here's a quick guide to Aleksei German's brutal, hallucinatory vision of the Strugatsky brothers' novel. Hard to Be a God (2013) drops you into the mud and blood of Arkanar, where the undercover scientists—led by Rumata—must watch medieval cruelty unfold, protect local intellectuals from cruel punishments, and wrestle with a strict non‑interference rule that slowly breaks them. In this piece we'll check whether you can stream that unforgiving world on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+, and how to find it if it’s available in your region. The film premiered at major festivals and earned critical acclaim and several festival honors for its uncompromising production and visual achievement.

Synopsis

A team of scientists is dispatched to the distant planet Arkanar to gently steer a society trapped in a medieval phase toward a safer path of progress. Bound by strict rules forbidding violent intervention and the taking of life, they must rely on persuasion and subtle guidance rather than force. When Rumata moves to protect local intellectuals facing harsh punishment, he is drawn out of detached observation and compelled to take a definitive stand.

Release date

2013

Duration

2h 57min

Rating

Director

Aleksey German

Country

Fédération de Russie

Genre(s)

Drame, Science-Fiction

Cast

Leonid Yarmolnik Yuriy Tsurilo Natalya Moteva Aleksandr Chutko Aleksandr Ilin Evgeniy Gerchakov Pyotr Merkuryev