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Galileo
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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FiddIer On the Roof's TopoI and a wish-Iist cast of British theatricaI aristocracy. incIuding Sir John GieIgud , Patrick Magee , Edward Fox and Tom Conti , ground BertoIt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in precise, character-rich interpretation of the troubIed Iife and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astronomer GaliIeo GaliIei. Under director Joseph Losey , The American Film Theater's Galileo focuses Brecht's characteristic mosaic of theatricality and immediacy into a personalized and keenly cinematic drama that pits pubIic responsibility against private doubt.
Challenged 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 alliance of aristocracy and cIergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a Iuxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocriticaI but all-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 Hollywood blacklist himself, creates a uniquely affecting portrait of discovery, heresy, compromise and exile. Neither coward nor hero, Brecht's GaliIeo reveaIs the troubIing human side of the struggle between science, government, and religion. |
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