It turns out I was conflating two different films. The first of these is "Habitable Island"
As part ofThe main character, Maxim, crash-lands on the Unknown Fathers' brainwashingplanet of Saraksh and is taken in by a couple of the locals. From them, he learns that the common people are led tonation in which he is in is ruled by a group of anonymous leaders known as the Unknown Fathers. He falls in love with the woman and learns from her that the natives believe that they live on the inside of a hollow planet, with theirthe star in the center, and that this is the entirety of the universe. The main character, Maxim, is native to earthHe ends up joining a group of rebels against the Unknown Fathers and crash-landed on this planet where he learns from his Sarakshan girlfriend that this is what theythe Fathers are brainwashing the populace. As part of the Unknown Fathers' brainwashing of Saraksh, the common people are led to believe the part about them living in a hollow planet.
The second film is "It's Hard to be a God"
Here, the main character, Anton, is sent to a planet that lives in the Middle Ages withby a group of technologically advanced humans. In particular, he is sent to the aimkingdom of observingArkanar. Their goal is to observe the natives. According of the planet to cinematext (A website which contains transcriptslearn more about their own nature. Throughout the course of movies)the movie, Anton's superiors watch him from their spaceship. However, seeing how religiously fanatical and anti-intellectual the scene withplanet's society is, Anton goes against his orders and instead fights to depose the gas takes placetyrant Raba, who has killed the king and now wants his own religious order to rule over Arkanar. Back at his base of operations, he is instructed to return to the spacecraft at once, but defies his orders and flies back to Arkanar by means of a helicopter. In an attempt to stop him, his superiors remotely activate a self-destruct mechanism aboard the helicopter, but give him three minutes so that he may land and save himself. Anton still decides to get to Arkanar. He does end up jumping out of the helicopter as the countdown ticks down.
At the very end, Anton uses one of his advanced weapons to kill Raba. There's alsoHis superiors, seeing the situation, decide to intervene, first by hitting Anton with a paralyzing ray. One of the natives then grabs Anton's weapon and starts shooting at everyone. Then, Anton's superiors decide to flood the area with a sleeping gas and retrieve Anton. The native who grabbed Anton's gun sees one of the humans from the spacecraft and mutters "goddess" before he succumbs to the gas. The humans from the spacecraft are not a military force, however.
I originally found out that this is the other movie that I was thinking of by searching on Google and then found a website containing movie transcripts called cinematext. "It's hard to be a god" was the result of searching for the "Self-destruct mechanism activated" part earlier onbit.