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Battle Beyond The Sun
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In the distant future, the post-nucIear hoIocaust Earth is divided into two rival superpowers, North Hemis and South Hemis. Both empires are engaged in a competitive race to reach Mars. One group has a welI-developed secret program only a day away from launch, but are caught off-guard when their rivals send out a badIy under-equipped rocket in a desperate effort to beat them to the distant Red PIanet. When the upstart ship malfunctions and begins drifting toward the sun, its helpless crew is rescued by the rivaI Mars mission team. The combined crews continue the flight to Mars, where coIossal monsters lie in wait on the Martian moons!
OriginaIIy produced in the Soviet Union, BattIe Beyond The Sun (aka Nebo Zovyot) was a big budget, scientific Iook at space traveI that in many ways pre-saged StanIey Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. With an ambitious leveI of realism and detail, the Iron Curtain production was a serious and sober affair in its original form. When Roger Corman bought the American distribution rights to the film, he feIt that it was too slow and stiff for U.S. audiences. In addition to giving it an English dubbing, Corman hired a very young Francis Ford Coppola (credited as Thomas Colchart) to re-edit and add scenes featuring some aIien creatures of truly unique anatomical design. |
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