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Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
Original Release
01/27/1975
US Release
01/27/1975
Cast
Name | Character |
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Topol | Galileo Galilei |
Edward Fox | Cardinal Inquisitor |
Colin Blakely | Priuli |
Georgia Brown | Ballad Singer's Wife |
Clive Revill | Ballad Singer |
Margaret Leighton | Elderly Court Lady |
John Gielgud | The Old Cardinal |
Michael Gough | Sagredo |
Michael Lonsdale | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) |
Richard O'Callaghan | Fulganzio |
Directors
Writers
Joseph Losey, Barbara Bray, Bertolt Brecht, Charles Laughton, Margarete Steffin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Topol | Galileo Galilei |
Edward Fox | Cardinal Inquisitor |
Colin Blakely | Priuli |
Georgia Brown | Ballad Singer's Wife |
Clive Revill | Ballad Singer |
Margaret Leighton | Elderly Court Lady |
John Gielgud | The Old Cardinal |
Michael Gough | Sagredo |
Michael Lonsdale | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) |
Richard O'Callaghan | Fulganzio |
Tim Woodward | Ludovico Marsili |
Judy Parfitt | Angelica Sarti |
John McEnery | Federzoni |
Patrick Magee | Cardinal Bellarmin |
Mary Larkin | Virginia |
Iain Travers | Andrea Sarti (boy) |
Tom Conti | Andrea Sarti (man) |
James Aubrey | Monk-Scholar |
Robert Bridges | Fat Prelate |
Tom Chatto | Town Crier |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Otto Plaschkes | Executive Producer |
Ely A. Landau | Producer |