Galileo
(1975)

Released: 1975-01-27

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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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Topol

as Galileo Galilei

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Edward Fox

as Cardinal Inquisitor

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Georgia Brown

as Ballad Singer's Wife

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Clive Revill

as Ballad Singer

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Margaret Leighton

as Elderly Court Lady

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John Gielgud

as The Old Cardinal

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Michael Lonsdale

as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

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Tim Woodward

as Ludovico Marsili

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Judy Parfitt

as Angelica Sarti

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John McEnery

as Federzoni

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Patrick Magee

as Cardinal Bellarmin

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Mary Larkin

as Virginia

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Michael Reed

Director of Photography

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Bertolt Brecht

Theatre Play

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Richard Hartley

Original Music Composer

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Hanns Eisler

Original Music Composer

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Ron Drinkwater

Focus Puller

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