Galileo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Losey
Haym Topol
Edward Fox
Colin Blakely
Basil Henson
John Moffatt
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Synopsis
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th 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 Newton and Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the centre 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, i.e., the Catholic Church recanted!
Director
Joseph Losey
Cast
Haym Topol
Edward Fox
Colin Blakely
Basil Henson
John Moffatt
Judy Parfitt
Tim Woodward
Norman Scace
Paul Curran
Georgia Brown
Robert Owens
Harold Innocent
Richard Dennis
Margaret Leighton
Robert Bridges
Bill Wallis
Tom Conti
James Aubrey
Richard O'callaghan
Michael Gough
Mischa Delamotte
Ian Hoare
Patrick Magee
John Gielgud
Martin Milman
Robert Lloyd
Madeline Smith
Leon Silver
Peggy Thorpe-bates
Brian Hawksley
Job Stewart
Henry Woolf
Clive Revill
Tom Chatto
John Savident
John Sharp
Vernon Dobtcheff
Dermot Colman
Maurice Quick
William Wild
Andrew Harding
John Mcenery
Ian Travers
Ronald Radd
William Gossling
Mary Larkin
Ken Wynne
Michel Lonsdale
Crew
Reginald Beck
Barbara Bray
Bertolt Brecht
Richard Dalton
Jim Digangi
Hanns Eisler
Gerry Gavigan
Richard Hartley
Peter Horrocks
Ronald Hynd
Ely Landau
Charles Laughton
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey
Richard Macdonald
Ruth Myers
Otto Plaschkes
Michael Reed
Bill Rowe
Ivan Sharrock
Anthony Waye
Henry T. Weinstein
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Released in United States 1974
Released in United States 1974
