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
Edward Fox as Cardinal Inquisitor
Colin Blakely as Priuli
Georgia Brown as Ballad Singer's Wife
Clive Revill as Ballad Singer
Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady
John Gielgud as The Old Cardinal
Michael Gough as Sagredo
Michael Lonsdale as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Richard O'Callaghan as Fulganzio
Tim Woodward as Ludovico Marsili
Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti
John McEnery as Federzoni
Patrick Magee as Cardinal Bellarmin
Mary Larkin as Virginia
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