Actor: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakeley, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill
Director: Joseph Losey
Genre: Drama
Year: 1975
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 145
Released: 06/25/2019
Rating: PG
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Color
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth 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 in 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 Sir Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo. The Catholic Church recanted.
