Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)

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

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.

• Release Date: 1959-09-12
• Runtime: 1h 9min
• Production Company: Dovzhenko Film Studios
• Production Country: Soviet Union, United States of America
• Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr.
• Writer: Mikhail Karyukov