The Heavens Call
(Nebo zovet)
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Directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr.
With Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich.
USSR, 1959, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Russian with English subtitles.
With Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich.
USSR, 1959, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Russian with English subtitles.
This tale of an aborted Mars expedition (the cosmonauts crash-land on a nearby asteroid instead) features spectacular "spacescapes" and a prescient visualization of the Earth's orbit cluttered by manmade satellites. Roger Corman and young Francis Ford Coppola helped themselves to the film's plot and footage for their 1963 opus Battle Beyond the Sun.
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To the Stars by Hard Ways
Directed by Richard Viktorov, 1981
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