Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Calls)1959

1959 · drama · science-fiction · Aleksandr Kozyr and Mikhail Karyukov

The Sky Calls (1959) — Soviet science fiction film about a scientific expedition preparing to be the first to land on Mars. The story follows the Soviet spaceship Homeland as it encounters an American ship, Typhoon, which is also aiming for Mars, leading to a series of challenges and a dramatic rescue mission. Directed by Aleksandr Kozyr and Mikhail Karyukov, it was filmed at Dovzhenko Film Studios in 1959 and premiered September 12, 1959. In 1962, an Americanized edit was released entitled Battle Beyond the Sun under the direction of Roger Corman in collaboration with recent film school graduate Francis Ford Coppola dubbed in English.