Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Galileo [videorecording] / the Ely Landu Orgainzation, Inc and Cinevision Lee present the American Film Theatre ; a film by Joseph Losey.
Edition:
Letterboxed [1.85:1] ; Enhanced for 16x9 TVs.
Publisher, Date:
[New York, NY] : Kino International Corporation, c2003.
Description:
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Target Audience Note:
Rated PG.
Series:
The American Film Theatre ; Collection three.
Subjects:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Drama.
Astronomy -- History -- Drama.
Astronomers -- Italy -- Drama.
Mathematicians -- Italy -- Drama.
Feature films.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Other Author:
Losey, Joseph.
Bray, Barbara.
Landau, Ely.
Topol, 1935-2023
Fox, Edward, 1937-
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.
Conti, Tom.
Brown, Georgia.
Blakely, Colin.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Leben des Galilei. English.
American Film Theatre.
Kino International Corporation.
Other Title:
Title on disc surface and on container: Bertolt Brecht's Galileo.
Also known as: Galileo Galilei.
Notes:
Video disc release of the motion picture originally produced in 1974.
Special features include an interview with Topol and "Bertolt Brecht and GALILEO" an essay by Michael Feingold.
Executive producer, Otto Plaschke ; producer, Ely Landau ; director, Joseph Losey ; editor, Reginald Beck. "Adapted for the screen by Barbara Bray and Joseph Losey, from the English version by Charles Laughton."
Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Clive Revill, Tom Conti.
DVD.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
K292 DVD
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
132147
Call Number:
DVD MOVIE Galileo
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1
Medium:
[videorecording]