Galileo (1975) — drama, history film. Directed by Joseph Losey. Starring Chaim Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown. This page maps 5 characters and 5 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A scientist's relentless pursuit of empirical truth clashes with entrenched religious authority and institutional vulnerability.
Drama, History · 6/10 · 145 min · 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.
