Battle Beyond the Sun
(1959)
★ 4.4 IMDb · 22 votes
Year: 1959
Runtime: 69 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Фрэнсис Форд Коппола
Cast: Иван Переверзев, Александр Шворин, Константин Барташевич, Гурген Тонунц, Валентин Черняк, Виктор Добровольский, Александра Попова, Таисия Литвиненко, Сергей Филимонов, Михаил Белоусов
Plot
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.