Galileo (1975)
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.
Director: Joseph Losey
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Chaim Topol as Galileo Galilei |
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Edward Fox as Cardinal Inquisitor |
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Colin Blakely as Priuli |
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Georgia Brown as Ballad Singer's Wife |
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Clive Revill as Ballad Singer |
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Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady |
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John Gielgud as The Old Cardinal |
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Michael Gough as Sagredo |
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Michael Lonsdale as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) |
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Richard O'Callaghan as Fulganzio |
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Tim Woodward as Ludovico Marsili |
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Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti |
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John McEnery as Federzoni |
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Patrick Magee as Cardinal Bellarmin |
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Mary Larkin as Virginia |
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Madeline Smith as young lady |
| Editing | Reginald Beck | Editor |
| Writing | Joseph Losey | Writer |
| Camera | Michael Reed | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Joseph Losey | Director |
| Art | Richard Macdonald | Production Design |
| Writing | Barbara Bray | Writer |
| Writing | Bertolt Brecht | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Ron Drinkwater | Focus Puller |
| Art | George Dean | Painter |
| Sound | Hanns Eisler | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Richard Hartley | Original Music Composer |
