Galileo
movie
Released January 27, 1975
Overview
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
Chaim 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
Crew
Joseph Losey
as
Director
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Reginald Beck
as
Editor
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Richard Macdonald
as
Production Design
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Barbara Bray
as
Writer
Joseph Losey
as
Writer
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Michael Reed
as
Director of Photography
Bertolt Brecht
as
Theatre Play
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Ron Drinkwater
as
Focus Puller
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George Dean
as
Painter
Hanns Eisler
as
Original Music Composer
Richard Hartley
as
Original Music Composer