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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 11:06 pm Post subject: The Sky Calls (Nebo Zovyot - Russia 1959) |
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Great movie, too bad it's Russian print. The first rocket landing on a ship!
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This YouTube version doesn't look as good at the one above, but it DOES have English subtitles!
I think I'll watch the best version on my TV and run the subtitled version on my computer to read the dialog. 
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Bulldogtrekker and I watched this movie today with subtitles, and it was NOT an enjoyable experience. The subtitles are so poorly worded that most of the time they made very little sense. Obviously they were written by someone whose English was quite poor.
The print with the better picture of the two (the one without subtitles) is missing several scenes (about two minutes total), so it was tough to keep the one with the subtitles (and the poor picture) synchronized on my laptop with the one I was playing on my TV.
Between those two flaws (missing scenes, half-literate subtitles) the story is confusing as hell.
But the special effects and sets are certainly laudable.
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I found a poster for this movie that I really like. The artwork is nice and loose, plus the composition is appealing.
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Weirdly, the first video appears to have German titles, although the audio is in Russian. I suspect it is the German 2009 re-release minus subtitles.
The second with the poor English subtitles appears to maybe have the original titles in Russian.
The third version, dubbed in English, has a whole new intro made up of stock footage of American aerospace clips.
This last version was heavily modified by producer Roger Corman and a young Francis Ford Coppola. According to Wikipedia:
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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.
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U.S. version
Main 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. The film was distributed by American International Pictures.
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).
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