Galileo

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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  Joseph Losey

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