Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
Nebo zovyot
The GIGANTIC battle! Which race will win...and rule the universe?
77 min
English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. 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 nearthe Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.
- Release date
- September 12, 1959
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Ivan Pereverzev as Kornev (Dr. Albert Gordon - US)
- Aleksandr Shvorin as Gordienko (Craig Matthews - US)
- Konstantin Bartashevich as Klark (Dr. Martin - US)
- Gurgen Tonunts as Verst (Capt. Torrance - US)
- Valentin Chernyak as Somov (Paul Clinton - US)
- Viktor Dobrovolsky as Demchenko (Commander Daniels - US)
- Aleksandra Popova as Korneva (Dr. Ruth Gordon - US)
- Taisiya Litvinenko as Lena
- Larysa Borysenko as Olga (Nancy - US)
- Lev Lobov as Sashko (Johnson - US)
Crew
- Mikhail Karyukov · Director
- Aleksandr Kozyr · Director
- Francis Ford Coppola · Director
- Aleksey Sazonov · Writer
- Evgeniy Pomeshchikov · Writer
- Mikhail Karyukov · Writer
- Yuli Meitus · Composer
- L. Mkhitaryants · Editor
- Yuri Shvets · Production designer