The Life of Galileo

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1964

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Released

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1Hr 55min

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

Drama

Cast

Leo McKern

Galileo

Nigel Stock

Narrator / Sagredo / Cardinal Bellarmin / Pamphleteer / Peasant

Fergus McClelland

Andrea, the boy

Rosalie Crutchley

Mrs. Sarti

George Roubicek

Ludovico

Anthony Morton

Priuli, the Curator

Paul Endersby

The Doge / Christopher Clavius

Sheila Shand Gibbs

Virginia

Martin Sterndale

Matti

Michael Peake

Senator

Darryl Read

Prince Cosimo de Medici

Vernon Dobtcheff

Philosopher

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