The following screening of the 1969 film on Galileo, at the auditorium of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, today (1st December) at 6 PM, will be accompanied simultaneously, by a video live feed displayed inside the auditorium of the Lunar Occultation of the star Atlas from the Pleiades cluster.
Keeping the importance of Galileo’s observations of the Moon and the Pleiades cluster in mind, this combination of film screening with veiwing of the Lunar Occultation of Pleiades, seems a very enjoyable IYA thing to do.
Please be there!
Tuesday, 1st December, 6:00 P.M
Teen Murti Auditorium, New Delhi
Screening of Film “GALILEO” (1968, 91min.) by Liliana Cavani in the new version just
restored by Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale and
screened with great success at the 2009 Venice Film Festival in Italian with English subtitles.
Dramatised version of the life of Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist who studied the stars with a telescope devised by him and stated that the Sun was the centre of the Universe.
After he published his theories, he was tried for heresy. Galileo preferred to back track rather than be subjected to the torture.
Director – Liliana Cavani, Screenplay – Liliana Cavani, Tullio Pinelli, Fabrizio Onofri, Producer – Leo Pescarolo, Director of Photography – Alfio Contini, Editor – Giovanni Baragli
Music – Ennio Morricone (Soundtrack), Art Direction – Ezio Frigerio
Main Cast
Cyril Cusack – Galileo
Lou Castel – Friar
Gigi Ballista – Trial Judge
Paolo Graziosi – Bernini
Irene Kokonova – Galileo’s Mistress
Piero Vida – Pope Urban VIII
Gheorghi Kolaiancey – Giordano Bruno
