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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Topol | ... | Galileo Galilei | |
| Edward Fox | ... | Cardinal Inquisitor | |
| Colin Blakely | ... | Priuli | |
| Georgia Brown | ... | Ballad Singer's Wife | |
| Clive Revill | ... | Ballad Singer | |
| Margaret Leighton | ... | Elderly Court Lady | |
| John Gielgud | ... | The Old Cardinal | |
| Michael Gough | ... | Sagredo | |
| Michael Lonsdale | ... | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) | |
| Richard O'Callaghan | ... | Fulganzio | |
| Tim Woodward | ... | Ludovico Marsili | |
| Judy Parfitt | ... | Angelica Sarti | |
| John McEnery | ... | Federzoni | |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Cardinal Bellarmin | |
| Mary Larkin | ... | Virginia | |
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This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like Sir Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo. The Catholic Church recanted. Written by <sundar1@aol.com>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 May 1976 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Galileo Galilei See more »Filming Locations:
EMI Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UKCompany Credits
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Cinévision Ltée, The American Film Theatre, The Ely Landau Organization Inc. See more »
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MonoColor:
Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Galileo Galilei: Incorrect. Unhappy is the land that *needs* a hero.
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Joseph Losey had also directed the original Broadway production of "Galileo", twenty-eight years previously. See more »Quotes
Andrea Sarti: [upon Galileo's recantation] Unhappy is the land that has no heroes.Galileo Galilei: Incorrect. Unhappy is the land that *needs* a hero.
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Topol with his impatient manner of speech is somewhat insufferable as Galileo. But then, by all accounts, the real Galileo had a touch of arrogance in him and was not very likeable. This movie does not capture the horrors of pre-Industrial Europe, when religious authorities could inflict the most fiendish tortures on any victims they chose. This movie could have made a statement about religion run amok in the social milieu of the day. Instead, it is a bland film lacking dramatic tension. It is a movie adapted from a play and it shows. There is even a chorus of choirboys which is totally out of place. However, there are few bio-pics of great scientists, so this one is worth watching once.