Film

Battle Beyond the Sun

1959 · 1h 9m · Science Fiction · Adventure

The GIGANTIC battle! Which race will win...and rule the universe?

IMDb

4.4

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.

Ivan Pereverzev

Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev

Aleksandr Shvorin

Craig Matthews

Konstantin Bartashevich

Robert Clark

Gurgen Tonunts

Verst (Capt. Torrance - US)

Valentin Chernyak

Somov (Paul Clinton - US)

Viktor Dobrovolsky

Demchenko (Commander Daniels - US)

Aleksandra Popova

Korneva (Dr. Ruth Gordon - US)

Taisiya Lytvynenko

Lena

Sergey Filimonov

Troyan - Journalist

Mikhail Belousov

Chief of Rescue Staff

Linda Barrett

Voice

Maria Samoilova

Clark's mother

Larisa Borisenko

Olga

Lev Lobov

Johnson (archive footage)

• Francis Ford CoppolaDirector
• Roger CormanProducer
• Thomas ColchartProducer

Nebo Zovyot (1959)

Release date

September 12, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 9m

Rated

NR

Genres

Science Fiction, Adventure

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