Eye of the Astronomer

Eye of the Astronomer

90 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 21, 2012

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the astronomer of Emperor Rudolp II. Kepler observes the night-sky as nobody has seen it before him. His observation platform becomes the meeting place of Prague's imperial court. In this entourage Kepler separates science from superstition, freedom from intolerance.

Eye of the Astronomer

90 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 21, 2012

Eye of the Astronomer
During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the astronomer of Emperor Rudolp II. Kepler observes the night-sky as nobody has seen it before him. His observation platform becomes the meeting place of Prague's imperial court. In this entourage Kepler separates science from superstition, freedom from intolerance.
Producers Les Films d'Ici
Original title L'oeil de l'astronome
Directors Stan Neumann
Writers Stan Neumann

Cast

Denis Lavant

as Jean Kepler

Airy Routier

as Bernard

Fabrizio Rongione

as Painter of the court

Lou Castel

as The old astronomer