
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.

as Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev

as Craig Matthews

as Olga

as Robert Clark

as Verst (Capt. Torrance - US)

as Somov (Paul Clinton - US)

as Demchenko (Commander Daniels - US)

as Korneva (Dr. Ruth Gordon - US)

as Lena

as Sashko (Johnson - US)

as Troyan - Journalist

as Chief of Rescue Staff

as Voice

as Clark's mother