Battle Beyond the Sun

rdf:langString Battle Beyond the Sun

rdf:langString Battle Beyond the Sun

rdf:langString Battle Beyond the Sun

rdf:langString US theatrical release poster

rdf:langString Nikolai Kulchitsky

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString L. Mkhitaryyanch

rdf:langString BattleBeyondTheSun

rdf:langString English

rdf:langString Yuli Meitus, performed by Vyacheslav Mescherin

rdf:langString Nebo Zovyot

rdf:langString Aleksei Sazonov

rdf:langString Mikhail Karyhukov,

rdf:langString Yevgeni Pomeshchikov

rdf:langString Battle Beyond the Sun is the English-dubbed and re-edited U.S. version of Nebo Zovyot, a 1959 Soviet science fiction film. Roger Corman acquired the Soviet film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to Americanize it. It is still a tale of the "space race", of two nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet Mars, but switches the competing nations, via the dubbing, from the USSR and the USA to the fictional future countries of North Hemis and South Hemis. The names of not only the Soviet characters, but also their performers, and the crew credits as well, were altered on the screen to American-sounding names in order to further disguise the film's origins: thus Soviet stars Aleksandr Shvorin and Ivan Pereverzev became "Andy Stewart" and "Edd Perry", and Soviet directors Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr became "Maurice Kaplin" and "Arthur Corwin" - and were demoted to Assistant Director status as well. The advertising and release print's designated Director is given as Thomas Colchart; sources vary as to whom that name actually belongs (Karyukov and/or Kozyr, Coppola, or a hired American dubbing director).