Mikhail KARIUKOV
Михаил КАРЮКОВ
Mikhaïl KARIOUKOV
Aleksandr KOZYR
Александр КОЗЫРЬ
Aleksandr KOZYR
USSR, 1959, 77mn 
Colour, fiction
The Heaven calls / The Sky Beckons
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Небо зовет

 

 L'Appel du ciel

 Nebo zavyot

 
Directed by : Mikhail KARIUKOV (Михаил КАРЮКОВ), Aleksandr KOZYR (Александр КОЗЫРЬ)
Writing credits : Mikhail KARIUKOV (Михаил КАРЮКОВ), Evgeniy POMESHCHIKOV (Евгений ПОМЕЩИКОВ), Aleksey SAZONOV (Алексей САЗОНОВ)
 
Cast
Ivan PEREVERZEV (Иван ПЕРЕВЕРЗЕВ)
Aleksandr SHVORIN (Александр ШВОРИН)
Konstantin BARTASHEVICH (Константин БАРТАШЕВИЧ)
Gurgen TONUTS (Гурген ТОНУНЦ)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay KULCHISKY (Николай КУЛЬЧИЦКИЙ)
Production design : Yuri SHVETS (Юрий ШВЕЦ)
Music : Yuli MEITUS (Юлий МЕЙТУС)
Production : Studio Dovzhenko
Spectators : 20 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, site français
Plot synopsis
The tale of an aborted Mars expedition (the cosmonauts crash-land on a nearby asteroid instead) features spectacular "spacescapes", as well as 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 the 1963 opus Battle Beyond The Sun.
Robert Skotak , www.seagullfilms.com
 
Commentaries
How Soviet sci-fi films influenced some of Hollywood’s most iconic hits, azerbaycan24.com, 2023
How Soviet sci-fi films influenced some of Hollywood’s most iconic hits, azerbaycan24.com, 2023
Neuf films russes «clonés» par Hollywood, Anna NEKHAÏEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The conquest of space in Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Utopiales : international science fiction festival, Nantes (France), 2006
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