- Battle Beyond the Sun
Infobox Film
name = Nebo Zowyet
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director =Mikhail Karzhukov
Aleksandr Kozyr
writer = Mikhail Karzhukov
Yevgeni Pomeshchikov
Aleksei Sazanov
starring =Aleksandr Shvorin ,Ivan Pereverzhev
music =
cinematography = Nikolai Kulchitsky
editing = L. Mkhitaryyanch
distributor = GOSKINO
released = flagicon|USSR Start date|1959
runtime = 75 minutes
country = USSR
language = Russian
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gross =
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amg_id = 1:110503
imdb_id = 0053103"Nebo Zovyet" (Sky is Calling) is a 1963 Soviet
science fiction film directed by M. Karzhukov andAleksandr Kozyr . It tells of the "space race", with the USSR forced into competing with the USA to become the first nation to colonizeMars .Roger Corman acquired the film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student namedFrancis Ford Coppola to Americanize it. In addition to preparing a dubbing script free of anti-American propaganda and supervising the dubbing, Coppola filmed a few shots of two Martian animals fighting and cut them into the Soviet material. This Americanized version was titled "Battle Beyond the Sun" and distributed byAmerican International Pictures in 1964.External links
*imdb title|id=0053103|title=Battle Beyond The Sun
*cite web
url = http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/liz_bbs.htm
title = Battle Beyond The Sun
publisher = And You Call Yourself a Scientist
accessdate = 2007-08-19
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