Released:
1959-09-12

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.

Director:
Francis Ford Coppola

Runtime:
1h 9min

Genre:
Science Fiction

• Cast:
• 
  Ivan Pereverzev
  as
  Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev
• 
  Aleksandr Shvorin
  as
  Craig Matthews
• 
  Larisa Borisenko
  as
  Olga
• 
  Konstantin Bartashevich
  as
  Robert Clark
• 
  Gurgen Tonunts
  as
  Verst (Capt. Torrance - US)