Galileo

Galileo by Joseph Losey

5.90

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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Cast

Topol

Topol as Galileo Galilei

Edward Fox

Edward Fox as Cardinal Inquisitor

Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely as Priuli

Georgia Brown

Georgia Brown as Ballad Singer's Wife

Clive Revill

Clive Revill as Ballad Singer

Margaret Leighton

Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady

John Gielgud

John Gielgud as The Old Cardinal

Michael Gough

Michael Gough as Sagredo

Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

Richard O'Callaghan

Richard O'Callaghan as Fulganzio

Tim Woodward

Tim Woodward as Ludovico Marsili

Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti

John McEnery

John McEnery as Federzoni

Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee as Cardinal Bellarmin

Mary Larkin

Mary Larkin as Virginia

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