Battle Beyond the Sun story
Battle Beyond the Sun is the English-dubbed and re-edited U.S. version of Nebo Zovyot, a 1959 Soviet science fiction film directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. It tells of the "space race" of two future nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet Mars.
11 total · 3 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cooperation | major | North Hemis and South Hemis astronauts cooperated against their respective governments' wishes to get to Mars. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | There was a space race between North Hemis and South Hemis to fly a manned mission to Mars. |
| transnational institution for peace | major | The film concluded with North Hemis and South Hemis sharing in the glory of the joint space mission and a message of hope that in the future both nations would work together. |
| extraterrestrial being | minor | The astronauts encounter two alien creatures on the asteroid they landed on. |
| human vs. beast | minor | The astronauts were attacked by two alien creatures on an asteroid. |
| husband and wife | minor | Craig Matthews and his wife. |
| nuclear holocaust | minor | The narrator explained how there was a world nuclear war in 1997. |
| romantic love | minor | Craig Matthews and his wife. |
| space colonization | minor | It was explained in the opening narration how Humans would one day venture out from Earth and colonize the planets. |
| space station | minor | A space station was build for the purpose of sending a manned mission to Mars. |