Battle Beyond the Sun

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.

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)

Crew

Roger Corman

Producer

Francis Ford Coppola

Associate Producer

Carmine Coppola

Music

Thomas Colchart

Producer

Francis Selbin

Special Effects

Nelson Lorin

Special Effects

Al Locatelli

Title Designer

Jan Oneidas

Music

Francis Ford Coppola

Director

Clips & Videos

Nebo Zovyot (1959)

Jack Hill on BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN