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Battle Beyond the Sun is the English-dubbed, re-edited U.S. version of Nebo Zovyot, a 1959 Soviet science fiction film directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. It tells of the „space race” of two future nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet 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 all references to the USSR, and supervising the dubbing, Coppola slightly re-edited the footage, eliminated the framing „daydream” sequences, and even saw to it that a pastel rhombus shape was matted in on a shot-by-shot basis, to cover the Cyrillic letters CCCP (USSR) which adorned the space station and Soviet rocketships.
Coppola also had filmed a few shots of two space monsters fighting and cut them into the Soviet material. According to Jack Hill, who worked on the new version (it was his first paid job for Roger Corman), Coppola’s idea was that one monster would look like a penis and the other a vagina. The new monster scenes were shot on a sound stage in Hollywood. Hill and Coppola also shot some footage of the Rose Parade at Pasadena.
The film opens with a non-sequitur prologue in which a narrator voice explains space flight concepts. Models of space craft „currently under development by the United States Government” are shown in succession. The narrator usefully explains that „the motion picture you are about to see may be called 'a fantasy of the future’.”
The time: November 1997. In the „fear-ridden years following the great atomic war”, the world has been divided into northern and southern hemispheres. The two countries, North Hemis and South Hemis, are clearly analogues for the United States and Soviet Union. The camera zooms in toward the South Hemis banner. Dr. Albert Gordon and his wife, Dr. Ruth Gordon, currently head the top secret „Project Red Planet” for South Hemis. (The footage we see is dubbed from the original Russian-Soviet; names have been Anglicized.) A space mission – more re-purposed footage – blasts off for an orbiting space station. The mission docks with the station, delivering the Gordons as well as Astronaut Craig Matthews.
South Hemis has been developing the Mercury, a spacecraft which should be able to complete a mission to Mars. Solar and orbital conditions are favorable. Suddenly, another spacecraft is detected approaching the station. It is from North Hemis. It requests and receives permission to land for emergency repairs. The two North Hemis astronauts – Captain Torrance and his co-pilot Dr. Martin – are treated to dinner by their South Hemis hosts. Dr. Gordon reveals that they themselves are about to commence a flight to Mars. The two North Hemis astronauts decide to end dinner, because „it’s getting late”.
Captain Torrance confers with his superiors in North Hemis. He wants to preempt the South Hemis flight to Mars with their own mission. Meanwhile, Dr. Martin meets with Dr. Gordon to discuss both missions. The North Hemis astronaut refuses to divulge any information about the North Hemis plan. Captain Torrance says, „I cannot accept defeat.” He disconnects from his North Hemis superiors and barges in on the meeting between Dr. Martin and Dr. Gordon. Outside in the corridor, Captain Torrance decides to proceed with the flight to Mars anyway. „Our repairs may not hold up,” says Dr. Martin. They decide to commandeer their rocketship – the Typhoon – under cover of trying to repair it. They blast off at full power. Paul Clinton, a South Hemis astronaut, is caught in the rocket back blast and is injured. Meanwhile, the Typhoon sets course for Mars.
Paul Clinton is diagnosed with a concussion and cannot go on the Mars mission; Dr. Gordon will go with Craig Matthews. The Mercury launches. Meanwhile, the Typhoon encounters a meteor storm, and its course veers dangerously close to the sun. The ship is disabled. The Mercury locates the Typhoon and eventually intercepts it. Matthews effects an EVA transfer of the two North Hemis astronauts. The South Hemis ship abandons the Typhoon to space …
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Directed by Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola (additional sequences US version), produced by Roger Corman (US version), written by Mikhail Karyhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov and Aleksei Sazonov, starring Aleksandr Shvorin Ivan Pereverzhev.
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Source: „Battle Beyond the Sun” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 April 2017. Web. 02 May 2017.
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Don't think I've seen this one yet.
It sounds like a really hot movie….
Colleges borrowed ideas, that offer thesis's for new ideas.
Lotta bad sceince
4:50 WHEW!!! Glad I'm living in Africa!!! 🥳
Most people are deluded and polluted spiritually that they'll attempt to poison you out of envy
I'm young Im in my thirties and I look 20
I'm young Im in my thirties and I look 20
I'm young Im in my thirties and I look 20
I'm young im in my thirties and I look 20
The colored lighting effects remind me of Basil Gogos artwork. Might make for an interesting diorama.
Elon sent me here.
The FX actually are not bad at all for the time…
They sure are touchy feely,..
The spacesuits are far better than the Teletubby onesies used in "First Spaceship On Venus"! 😅
Theme song:
There's a battle beyond the sun.
It's gonna' get hot so everyone….
Put on yer sunglasses and lets have fun.
Our food will be cooked well done!
cha-cha-cha.
Way to look like professional astronauts. Wear suit and tie. Do they have casual Friday's?
O 21 hundred, lol!
Leisure suits!
Wow. A visually stunning film, with interesting bits of more advanced sci-fi elements presented in almost matter-of-fact ways. The prologue firmly establishes the seriousness of this effort through the use of a (relatively) fast-paced montage that includes thoughtful space-ship designs, some grounded in reality. Spacecraft engine exhausts look powerful and lack the wimpy, gravity-tugged, and smoky trails typical of this era. The space-station's centrifuge is shown without comment and theres some effort to depict weightlessness.
As an anecdote, star backgrounds are shown in motion against the foreground of an exterior shot of a spaceship. This is incorrect, but even Kubrick messed this up in his great film.
I liked the movie, but the film coloring is so bad. That happens with alot of these films, i find.
Nowadays, the only way you can still tolerate the insufferable, pretentious, self-agrandizing delusional behavior of holywood is to grit your teeth through a 1959 sci-fi movie.
Elon Musk would have loved to see the spaceship land on an ocean barge! I wonder how his red Tesla car will land on Mars.
I got my “eye” on the space monster.
These are some nice flying space ships. Very comfortable too. Just like flying in a jet, 1st class. NASA needs to watch this movie and learn something.
About 20 years aftier this film predicted , the north and south Earth hemispheres ARE at odds with each other and seperated with the Ukraine / Russia war , Sanctions and energy divide . New treaties so that the Sounthern Hemisphere is opting out of the U.S Petrol dollar further dividing the world . And speculations of a 3rd world war presume it will be the northern western world countries against most of the southern hemisphere.
A lot of this music Is from Atlas 1961
Most of the music is from Atlas 1961 and some music by Ole Georg.
It was in color, sorta. Unfortunately that's the only positive about it.
All these guys have the same nose … there kin
I like to see what they didn't get to put in these movies. The space ship and the landing ship would go apart because neither weighs anything.
Not bad at all. Just watched the series For All Mankind and see echoes of this film in it.
I turned 13 in 1959😊
Horrible film.
7:01 but in the end it doesn't even matter
GREAT I ENJOYED IT A LOT
Oh…. the woman at the Chenobyl control centre. Obviously there was no money for a script writer and professional actors. I hope they saved the substantial sets for something else. As the investment didn't suit the Americanised dialog and the highly questionable Soviet style melodramatic "acting" . A real "dogs breakfast"!
Love the accidental accuracies with the total balls ups these early sci-fi movies made, it's why I love them so much.
Russia made the best space Sci fi movies, incredibly realistic for the time!
56:37. That one huge and ugly vagina