Battle Beyond the Sun ( 1959 )

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.

Top Cast

Ivan Pereverzev

Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev

Aleksandr Shvorin

Craig Matthews

Larisa Borisenko

Olga

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

Lev Lobov

Sashko (Johnson - US)

Sergey Filimonov

Troyan - Journalist

Mikhail Belousov

Chief of Rescue Staff

Linda Barrett

Voice

Maria Samoilova

Clark's mother