Italy,
1974, 152 min
Directed by:
Roberto RosselliniScreenplay:
Luciano ScaffaCinematography:
Mario MontuoriComposer:
Mario NascimbeneCast:
Joshua Sinclair, Fred Ward, Charles Borromel, Vernon Dobtcheff, Bruno Corazzari, Renato Montalbano, Stavros Tornes, Giuseppe Colombo, Bruno Cattaneo (more)Plots(1)
Rossellini's portrait of "the Father of Modern Philosophy", Rene Descartes (in Latin, Renatus Cartesius), depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. (official distributor synopsis)