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.
Joseph Losey
Writer, Director
Barbara Bray
Writer
Chaim Topol
Galileo Galilei
Edward Fox
Cardinal Inquisitor
Colin Blakely
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Georgia Brown
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John Gielgud
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Michael Gough
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Michael Lonsdale
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