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Galileo

Title: Galileo [videorecording] / the Ely Landu Organization, Inc. and Cinevision Ltee present ; a presentation of the American Film Theatre ; producer, Ely Landau ; director, Joseph Losey.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Kino International, [2003]

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Description

1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This bio-pic is 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.

Alternative Title

Bertolt Brecht's Galileo
Galileo Galilei

Subjects

Genre/Form

Feature films.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Drama.
History.

Note

Original production: c1974.
Includes special features.

Credits (note)

Executive producer, Otto Plaschkes ; editor, Reginald Beck ; adapted for the screen by Barbara Bray and Joseph Losey ; from the English version by Charles Laughton ; director of photography, Michael Reed ; original music, Hanns Eisler.

Performer (note)

Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Tom Conti ... [et al.].

System Details (note)

DVD, letterboxed (1.85:1), enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

Call Number

NCOX 2276

OCLC

53621376

Title

Galileo [videorecording] / the Ely Landu Organization, Inc. and Cinevision Ltee present ; a presentation of the American Film Theatre ; producer, Ely Landau ; director, Joseph Losey.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Kino International, [2003]

Edition

Letterboxed.

Country of Producing Entity

Great Britain naf

Playing Time

021800

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video region 1

System Details

DVD, letterboxed (1.85:1), enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

Cast

Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Tom Conti ... [et al.].

Credits

Executive producer, Otto Plaschkes ; editor, Reginald Beck ; adapted for the screen by Barbara Bray and Joseph Losey ; from the English version by Charles Laughton ; director of photography, Michael Reed ; original music, Hanns Eisler.

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Added Author

Losey, Joseph, film director.

Losey, Joseph, adapter.

Bray, Barbara, adapter.

Landau, Ely, film producer.

Topol, 1935-2023, actor.

Blakely, Colin, actor.

Brown, Georgia, actor.

Fox, Edward, 1937- actor.

Gielgud, John, 1904-2000, actor.

Leighton, Margaret, 1922-1976, actor.

Revill, Clive, actor.

Conti, Tom, actor.

Beck, Reginald, editor of moving image work.

MacDonald, Richard, 1919-1993, production designer.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962, composer.

Hynd, Ronald, choreographer.

Reed, Michael, 1929- cinematographer.

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, translator.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Leben des Galilei. English.

Ely Landau Organization.

American Film Theatre.

Kino International Corporation.

Publisher No.

K292 DVD Kino on Video

Research Call Number

NCOX 2276

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