Nebo klyche

Even in the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet cinema would sporadically devote itself to science fiction and what was described as popular fantasy. The idea was to adapt adventurous plots to fit the ideology The real Cold War space race of the 1950s brought with it the need to excel technically and artistically in the "most important of all arts". Only: this cost money and so it is not surprising that it was left to the Dovzhenko Studios in Kyiv and later the Gorky Film Studio in Moscow to engage in experimental activities. In 1959, the Ukrainian pioneers of genre Kozyr and Karyukov (who followed up in 1963 with Mechte Navstrechu / Encounter in Space) provided the first elevation: In NEBO KLYCHE, two future nations compete to become the first to land on planet Mars, Spaceship Homeland vs. Spaceship Typhoon. Impressed by the inventive use of animation, none other than B-movie star Roger Corman borrowed heavily from the film for his Battle Beyond the Sun (1962), the "US version" of the Soviet-Ukrainian pioneer, with an ideologically compatible screenplay, of course. Arsenal will show the dubbed 1960 DEFA version. (bw)