Battle Beyond the Sun
12/09/1959
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.
Movie Information
Ivan Pereverzev
as Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev
Aleksandr Shvorin
as Craig Matthews
Konstantin Bartashevich
as Robert Clark
Gurgen Tonunts
as Verst (Capt. Torrance - US)
Valentin Chernyak
as Somov (Paul Clinton - US)
Viktor Dobrovolsky
as Demchenko (Commander Daniels - US)
Aleksandra Popova
as Korneva (Dr. Ruth Gordon - US)
Taisiya Lytvynenko
as Lena
Sergey Filimonov
as Troyan - Journalist
Mikhail Belousov
as Chief of Rescue Staff
Linda Barrett
as Voice
Maria Samoilova
as Clark's mother
Larisa Borisenko
as Olga
Lev Lobov
as Johnson (archive footage)
