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Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
Directed by Aleksandr Kozyr, Mikhail Karyukov
Overview
Battle Beyond the Sun (1962) is the English-dubbed and re-edited American version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot (The Heavens Call). Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War “space race” to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South Hemis—compete to reach Mars first. When one crew’s mission goes awry, their rivals risk their own flight to attempt a daring rescue near the Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.
Rated NR | Length 69 minutes
Actors
Ivan Pereverzev | Aleksandr Shvorin | Larisa Borisenko | Konstantin Bartashevich | Gurgen Tonunts | Valentin Chernyak | Viktor Dobrovolsky | Aleksandra Popova | Taisiya Litvinenko | Lev Lobov | Sergey Filimonov | Mikhail Belousov | Linda Barrett | Maria Samoilova