Galileo's battle for the heavens
2006
DVD
The pioneering astronomer and condemned heretic comes to life in this fascinating film version of Dava Sobel's best-seller, Galileo's Daughter. British actor Simon Callow portrays the seventeenth-century genius who defied tradition and years of imprisonment to advance a new vision of the universe, recreated through letters from his devoted daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 DVD (1 video file (approximately 120 min.)) : sound, color
- digital
- polychrome
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: NRC
Other Title: Nova (Television program)
Notes: Narrator, Liev Schreiber ; cast, Simon Callow (Galileo), Laura Nardi (Maria Celeste), John Fraser (the Inquisitor), Alexa Jargo (voice of Maria Celeste), Cornelius Garret (voices of the Ambassador and Castelli).
Publisher or Distributor Number: MWT11867385
Control Number: 2227740
Publisher: [United States]: PBS, 2006.Subjects:
- Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
- Astronomers -- Italy -- Drama.
- Astronomy -- History.
- Astronomy -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
- Astronomy -- Religious aspects.
- Astronomy, Renaissance.
- Catholic Church -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Drama.
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
- Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Drama.
- Inquisition -- Italy -- 17th century.
- Sobel, Dava. Galileo's daughter -- Television adaptations.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Adler, Mark, music.
- Axelrod, David R., writer, producer.
- Callow, Simon, 1949- actor.
- Fraser, John, 1931-2020, actor.
- Garret, Cornelius, actor.
- Jargo, Alexa, actor.
- Jones, Peter, 1941- director.
- McDairmant, Brian, director of photographer.
- Nardi, Laura, actor.
- Schrieber, Liev, narrator.
- Sobel, Dava. Galileo's daughter.