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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.
Movie rating: 6.6 / 10 (685)
Directed by: Joseph Losey - Barbara Bray - Bertolt Brecht - Charles Laughton
Writer credits: Barbara Bray - Barbara Bray - Bertolt Brecht
Cast: Topol - Edward Fox - Colin Blakely - Georgia Brown - Clive Revill
AKA: Galileu, Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, Galileo Galilei
