Battle Beyond the Sun (1963)

Quick Info

  • Director: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr
  • Year: 1963
  • Production Number: 716
  • Release Route: AIP (theatrical)
  • Runtime: 69 minutes
  • Genre: Sci-Fi
  • Country: Soviet Union, United States of America
  • Production Company: Filmgroup; Mosfilm; A.P. Dovzenko Filmstudio
  • Rights Status : Unknown
  • Alternate Titles / AKA:
    The Heavens Call; Nebo Zovyot (1959)

Synopsis

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.

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