Galileo
1975-01-27 | 145 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Chaim TopolGalileo Galilei
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Edward FoxCardinal Inquisitor
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Colin BlakelyPriuli
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Georgia BrownBallad Singer's Wife
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Clive RevillBallad Singer
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Margaret LeightonElderly Court Lady
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John GielgudThe Old Cardinal
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Michael GoughSagredo
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Michael LonsdaleCardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
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Richard O'CallaghanFulganzio
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Tim WoodwardLudovico Marsili
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Judy ParfittAngelica Sarti
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John McEneryFederzoni
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Patrick MageeCardinal Bellarmin
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Mary LarkinVirginia
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