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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Chaim TopolGalileo Galilei
Edward FoxCardinal Inquisitor
Colin BlakelyPriuli
Georgia BrownBallad Singer's Wife
Clive RevillBallad Singer
Margaret LeightonElderly Court Lady
John GielgudThe Old Cardinal
Michael GoughSagredo
Michael LonsdaleCardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Richard O'CallaghanFulganzio
Tim WoodwardLudovico Marsili
Judy ParfittAngelica SartiExplore the crew
- Director
- Joseph Losey
- Editor
- Reginald Beck
- Writer
- Barbara Bray
- Writer
- Joseph Losey
- Director of Photography
- Michael Reed
- Original Music Composer
- Hanns Eisler
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Hartley