Galileo

The story

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.

Cast

C Chaim TopolGalileo Galilei E Edward FoxCardinal Inquisitor C Colin BlakelyPriuli G Georgia BrownBallad Singer's Wife C Clive RevillBallad Singer M Margaret LeightonElderly Court Lady J John GielgudThe Old Cardinal M Michael GoughSagredo M Michael LonsdaleCardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) R Richard O'CallaghanFulganzio T Tim WoodwardLudovico Marsili J Judy ParfittAngelica Sarti

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J John McEneryFederzoni P Patrick MageeCardinal Bellarmin M Mary LarkinVirginia M Madeline Smithyoung lady