Galileo

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• Genre(s): Drama, History
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Joseph Losey
• Cast(s): Chaim Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 2h 25min
• Music: Richard Hartley,Hanns Eisler
• Similar To: The Bluff, The Lost Bus
• 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.
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