
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.

Chaim Topol
Galileo Galilei

Edward Fox
Cardinal Inquisitor

Colin Blakely
Priuli


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January 27, 1975
2h 25m
6.0
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey, Barbara Bray
14

The American Film Theatre
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Cinévision Ltée
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Georgia Brown
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Clive Revill
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Margaret Leighton
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Michael Gough
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Michael Lonsdale
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

Richard O'Callaghan
Fulganzio
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