Blaise Pascal (1972) - (Movie Clip) I Believe In Hell's Power

Blaise Pascal (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Descartes

Pierre Arditi (title character), already something of a phenomenon in 17th century France, has just attended a lecture by the renowned philosopher Descartes (Claude Baks), to whom he is then introduced, in Roberto Rossellini's "didactic" TV movie Blaise Pascal, 1972.

Blaise Pascal (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Lesson Of Darkness

In his first significant scene, Pierre Arditi (title character) working with his father (Giuseppe Addobbati) the tax collector in Rouen, ca. 1640, engaging the work by Desargues which will become the basis of "Pascal's Theorem," in Roberto Rossellini's TV movie, Blaise Pascal, 1972.