1962 poster for Battle Beyond the Sun, an English-dubbed version of 1959’s Nebo Zovyot from the Soviet Union.
1962 poster for Battle Beyond the Sun, an English-dubbed version of 1959’s Nebo Zovyot from the Soviet Union.
In 1959, Dovzhenko Film Studios released “Nebo Zovyot” (Небо зовет), which is variously rendered in English as “The Heavens Call,” “The Sky Beckons,” et cetera. As a product of its time, this Soviet science fiction movie features inept American antagonists that modern viewers might recognize as early analogs to Star Trek’s Ferengi and Star Wars’ Trade Federation.
While not surprisingly portraying the Soviets as the heroes who must try to rescue the Americans, the film by and large envisioned a future characterized by cooperation between spacefaring powers rather than conflict.
The movie was heavily re-edited into a monster “B-movie” by Roger Corman and a young Francis Ford Coppola and released in the United States in 1962 under the title “Battle Beyond the Sun”.
In 1959, Dovzhenko Film Studios released “Nebo Zovyot” (Небо зовет), which is variously rendered in English as “The Heavens Call,” “The Sky Beckons,” et cetera. As a product of its time, this Soviet science fiction movie features inept American antagonists that modern viewers might recognize as early analogs to Star Trek’s Ferengi and Star Wars’ Trade Federation.
While not surprisingly portraying the Soviets as the heroes who must try to rescue the Americans, the film by and large envisioned a future characterized by cooperation between spacefaring powers rather than conflict.
The movie was heavily re-edited into a monster “B-movie” by Roger Corman and a young Francis Ford Coppola and released in the United States in 1962 under the title “Battle Beyond the Sun”.