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Galileo
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Fiddler On the Roof's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy. including Sir John Gielgud , Patrick Magee , Edward Fox and Tom Conti , ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatricaI imagination in precise, character-rich interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astronomer GaIileo Galilei. Under director Joseph Losey , The American FiIm Theater's GaIiIeo focuses Brecht's characteristic mosaic of theatricaIity and immediacy into a personaIized and keenIy cinematic drama that pits public responsibility against private doubt.
ChaIIenged by a new student, tutor and theorist GaIiIeo co-opts emerging telescope technoIogy 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 alIiance of aristocracy and cIergy 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 hypocriticaI but alI-powerfuI Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own Iife and the restIess scientific curiosity that he has spurned famiIy, friends, and weaIth to pursue.
ln GaIileo, director Losey , an exile of the HolIywood blacklist himself, creates a uniquely affecting portrait of discovery, heresy, compromise and exiIe. Neither coward nor hero, Brecht's GaliIeo reveals the troubling human side of the struggIe between science, government, and religion. |
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