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the Man who came besides ( The Man Who Fell to Earth ) is a British film carried out by Nicolas Roeg, left in 1976.

Synopsis

Thomas, extraterrestrial with human appearance, tries to build a spaceship allowing him to turn over on his planet to save to them his.

Title: the Man who came besides
original Titer: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Realization: Nicolas Roeg
Scenario: Paul Mayersberg, according to the novel the Man fallen from the sky , of Walter Tevis
Production: Michael Deeley, If Litvinoff, John Peverall and Barry Spikings
Music: John Phillips and Stomu Yamashta
Photography: Anthony B. Richmond
Assembly: Graeme Clifford
Decorations: Brian Eatwell
Costumes: May Routh
Country of origin: the United Kingdom
Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Stereo - 35 mm
Kind: Drama, science fiction
Lasted: 138 minutes
Comings out date: May 26th 1976 (Netherlands), May 28th 1976 (the United States), July 6th 1977 (France)
Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

turning was held with Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Artesia, Jemez Springs, Madrid, Manzano Mountains and Roswell, with the New Mexico.
the novel of Walter Tevis was rehabilitated thereafter for television with The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987) and for the cinema with The Man Who Fell to Earth (2008).
For the role of extraterrestrial, the scenario writer had first of all thought of Michael Crichton.
In the original version, at the time of a scene, Mary-Lou requires “Tommy, Can You Hear Me? ” ( Tommy, do you hear me? ), which is a reference to the song éponyme resulting from the Opéra-rock Tommy (1969).

Nomination with the Bear of gold, at the time of the Festival of Berlin in 1976.
Price of the best actor for David Bowie and nomination at the price of best science fiction film, by the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror in 1977.
Nomination with the Price Hugo of best dramatic film in 1977.

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