The Sky Calls

Sep 12, 1959

1h 17m

★ 3.6

Overview

This movie follows the crew of the spaceship Homeland, preparing for the first manned mission to Mars. When an American ship, Typhoon, rushes to beat them and suffers a critical malfunction, the Soviets divert their mission to attempt a rescue. Stranded on the asteroid Icarus with depleted fuel, the cosmonauts await a desperate rescue mission that may cost another crew their lives.

Genres

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Mosfilm

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Cast

Yevgeny Petrovich Kornev

Ivan Pereverzev

Erwin Verst

Gurgen Tonunts

Andrej Gordienko

Aleksandr Shvorin

Robert Clark

Konstantin Bartashevich

Olga

Larisa Borisenko

Grigoriy Somov

Valentin Chernyak

Demchenko

Viktor Dobrovolsky

Vera Korneva

Aleksandra Popova

Lena

Taisiya Lytvynenko

Sashko

Lev Lobov

Troyan

Sergey Filimonov

Mikhail Belousov

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