Galileo
Joseph Losey (Director, Adapter), Barbara Bray (Adapter), Ely Landau (Producer), Topol (Actor), Colin Blakely (Actor), Georgia Brown (Actor), Edward Fox (Actor), John Gielgud (Actor), Margaret Leighton (Actor), Clive Revill (Actor), Tom Conti (Actor), Reginald Beck (Editor of moving image work), Richard MacDonald (Production designer), Hanns Eisler (Composer), Ronald Hynd (Choreographer), Michael Reed (Cinematographer), Charles Laughton (Translator), Michael Feingold (Writer of accompanying material), Bertolt Brecht, Ely Landau Organization, American Film Theatre, Kino International Corporation
Screen version of Bertolt Brecht's play about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like Newton and Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the center of the Universe
DVD Video, English, [2003]
Kino International, [New York, NY], [2003]