A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world's first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the command to start.
An American ship Typhoon experiencing mechanical problems arrives at the same space station, secretly having the same plans for the conquest of the Red Planet. Trying to stay ahead of the Soviets, they start without proper preparation, and soon are again in distress.
The Homeland changes course to save the crew of Typhoon. They succeed, but find that their fuel reserves are now insufficient to get to Mars. So Homeland makes an emergency landing on the asteroid Icarus passing near Mars, on which they are stranded.
After an attempt to send a fuel supply by unmanned rocket fails, another ship Meteor is sent with a cosmonaut on a possibly suicidal mission, to save the stranded cosmonauts.
In 1962, Roger Corman invited film school student Francis Ford Coppola to produce an English-language version of the film, rights to which Corman had acquired for U.S. release, to be called Battle Beyond the Sun. In addition to preparing a dubbing script in American English, Coppola removed all references to the US/Soviet conflict from the dialogue, blotted out all the Cyrillic writing on the various spacecraft and superimposed neutral designs, replaced shots showing models and paintings of Soviet spacecraft with scenes showing NASA ones, replaced the names of all the actors with made-up names which had their first letters identical to those of the players (and thus turning Taisiya Litvinenko into a man, Thomas Littleton), and inserted a scene with monsters on Mars's moon Phobos. In all, the resulting film is 13 minutes shorter than the original.[3] The film was distributed by American International Pictures.[4]
Some space scenes from Nebo Zovyot also appear in Corman's 1965 film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. (Most of the scenes in that film are taken from another Soviet science-fiction film, Planeta Bur).
Related factsedit
Nebo Zovyot was released two years after the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and two years before the first manned flight into space by Yuri Gagarin.
Nebo Zovyot was re-released in Germany as Der Himmel ruft on June 15, 2009. Furthermore, the film was officially translated into Hungarian and Italian.[5]
In the film the fictional Soviet spaceship Rodina (Russian: Родина, Motherland) landed vertically on floating landing platform in Yalta harbour, similar to SpaceX CRS-8 landing on April 8, 2016,[6] (with SpaceX having successfully accomplished their first vertical landing recovery of a first stage booster as a return to launch site during Flight 20 of Falcon 9 on December 21, 2015).
Referencesedit
^Borin, Alexandr Abramovich — Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
^МУЗЫКА и ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА #1-2008: И.Иванов. «Вячеслав Мещерин: штрихи к портрету»
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Nebo Zovyot Russian Nebo zovyot translit Nebo zovyot lit The Sky Beckons or The Heavens Beckon is a 1959 Soviet science fiction adventure film directed by Aleksandr Kozyr and Mikhail Karyukov It was filmed at Dovzhenko Film Studios in 1959 and premiered September 12 1959 Nebo ZovyotTheatrical release posterDirected byMikhail Karyukov Aleksandr KozyrScreenplay byAleksei Sazonov Yevgeni Pomeshchikov Mikhail KaryukovProduced byValery FokinCinematographyNikolai KulchitskyEdited byL MkhitaryyanchMusic byYuliy Meitus performed by Vyacheslav MescherinProductioncompanyDovzhenko Film StudiosRelease dateSeptember 12 1959 1959 09 12 USSR Running time77 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 U S version 5 Related facts 6 References 7 External linksSynopsis editA Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world s first mission to planet Mars Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station where the expedition awaits the command to start An American ship Typhoon experiencing mechanical problems arrives at the same space station secretly having the same plans for the conquest of the Red Planet Trying to stay ahead of the Soviets they start without proper preparation and soon are again in distress The Homeland changes course to save the crew of Typhoon They succeed but find that their fuel reserves are now insufficient to get to Mars So Homeland makes an emergency landing on the asteroid Icarus passing near Mars on which they are stranded After an attempt to send a fuel supply by unmanned rocket fails another ship Meteor is sent with a cosmonaut on a possibly suicidal mission to save the stranded cosmonauts Cast editIvan Pereverzev scientist Eugene Kornev Alexander Shvoryn engineer Andrey Gordienko Constantine Bartashevich astronaut Robert Clark Gurgen Tonunts astronaut Erwin Verst Valentin Chernyak cosmonaut Gregory Somov Viktor Dobrovolsky space station chief Vasily Demchenko Alexandra Alla Popova Vera Korneva Taisia Litvinenko doctor Lena Larisa Borisenko student Olga Leo Lobov cameraman Sasha Sergey Filimonov writer Troyan Maria Samoilov Clark s mother Mikhail Belousov uncredited Crew editScreenwriters Alexei Sazonov Evgeniya Pomeschikovwith the participation of Mikhael Karyukov Consultants corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Abnir Yakovkin Engineer Aleksandr Borin 1 Production Director Valeri Fokin Story Editors Renata Korol A Pereguda Staging directors Mikhael Karyukov Aleksandr Kozyr Art director Tatiana Kulchitskaya Chief Artist Timofej Liauchuk Sets director Yuri Shvets Costume Artist G Glinkova Makeup artist E Odinovich Special Effects Directors Franz Semyannikov N Ilyushin Special Effects Art Directors Yuri Shvets G Loukashov Director of photography Nikolai Kulchitskii Sound engineer Georgij Parahnikov Film Editor L Mkhitaryants Composer Julij Meitus USSR State OrchestraConductor Veniamin Tolba Eksperimentalnyj ansambl elektromuzykalnyh instrumentov Experimental Electronic Music Ensemble Orchestra Director Vyacheslav Mescherin 2 U S version editMain article Battle Beyond the Sun In 1962 Roger Corman invited film school student Francis Ford Coppola to produce an English language version of the film rights to which Corman had acquired for U S release to be called Battle Beyond the Sun In addition to preparing a dubbing script in American English Coppola removed all references to the US Soviet conflict from the dialogue blotted out all the Cyrillic writing on the various spacecraft and superimposed neutral designs replaced shots showing models and paintings of Soviet spacecraft with scenes showing NASA ones replaced the names of all the actors with made up names which had their first letters identical to those of the players and thus turning Taisiya Litvinenko into a man Thomas Littleton and inserted a scene with monsters on Mars s moon Phobos In all the resulting film is 13 minutes shorter than the original 3 The film was distributed by American International Pictures 4 Some space scenes from Nebo Zovyot also appear in Corman s 1965 film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet Most of the scenes in that film are taken from another Soviet science fiction film Planeta Bur Related facts editNebo Zovyot was released two years after the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and two years before the first manned flight into space by Yuri Gagarin Stanley Kubrick s 1968 film 2001 A Space Odyssey used drawings and graphics solutions from Nebo Zovyot created by the fiction artist Yuri Shvets 4 Nebo Zovyot was re released in Germany as Der Himmel ruft on June 15 2009 Furthermore the film was officially translated into Hungarian and Italian 5 In the film the fictional Soviet spaceship Rodina Russian Rodina Motherland landed vertically on floating landing platform in Yalta harbour similar to SpaceX CRS 8 landing on April 8 2016 6 with SpaceX having successfully accomplished their first vertical landing recovery of a first stage booster as a return to launch site during Flight 20 of Falcon 9 on December 21 2015 References edit Borin Alexandr Abramovich Russian Jewish Encyclopedia MUZYKA i ELEKTRONIKA 1 2008 I Ivanov Vyacheslav Mesherin shtrihi k portretu Nebo zovyot entry at kino teatr ru a b Nebo zovet section at Antologiya sovetskoj kinofantastiki Archived from the original on 2013 04 13 Retrieved 2014 02 24 IMDB releaseinfo Soviet SpaceX Falcon 9 fragment from Nebo Zovyot in Russian External links editNebo Zovyot at IMDb nbsp nbsp This article related to a Soviet film of the 1950s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This 1950s science fiction film related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nebo Zovyot amp oldid 1214003316, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
