Battle Beyond the Sun

Battle Beyond the Sun (Небо зовет)
Directed by	Mikhail Karyukov Aleksandr Kozyr
Written by	Mikhail Karyhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov Aleksei Sazonov
Starring	Aleksandr Shvorin Ivan Pereverzhev
Cinematography	Nikolai Kulchitsky
Editing by	L. Mkhitaryyanch
Studio	Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release date(s)	USSR: 1959 USA: 1962
Running time	75 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Battle Beyond the Sun (Russian: Небо зовет, translit. Nebo zovet, lit. The Sky is Calling) is a 1959 Soviet science fiction film directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. It tells of the "space race", with the USSR forced into competing with the USA to become the first nation to colonize Mars. Roger Corman acquired the film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to Americanize it. In addition to preparing a dubbing script free of anti-American propaganda and supervising the dubbing, Coppola filmed a few shots of two Martian animals fighting and cut them into the Soviet material. This Americanized version was titled Battle Beyond the Sun and distributed by American International Pictures in 1964.

External links

• Battle Beyond The Sun at the Internet Movie Database
• Battle Beyond the Sun is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
• Battle Beyond The Sun at AllRovi
• "Battle Beyond The Sun". And You Call Yourself a Scientist. http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/liz_bbs.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-19.