KIEVNAUCHFILM Creative association for artistic animation
GIORDANO BRUNO
Do you, heretic, renounce the vain idea of the infinity of the universe?
Speak! - I renounce...
Do you, madman, renounce the absurd thought of the multiplicity of worlds?
Speak! - I renounce...
Do you, forsaker of the faith, renounce the terrible statement
that the Earth is not the center of the universe?
Speak! - I renounce...
If you repeat all this before the court
of the Holy Inquisition,
she will not bypass you with her mercy and you will remain alive.
Wait and pray.
On February 15, 1599, the great scientist and philosopher Giordano Bruno, after 7 years of imprisonment and torture, renounced his beliefs.
Do not torment your soul with doubts, Giordano,
you have made the right step to salvation.
Who are you?
- I mean you well.
Trust me.
Look, Giordano, do you remember it?
This is your homeland. Your wonderful Campania.
Life is worth renouncing these beliefs, Giordano, isn't it?
Nobody will dare to reproach you for your cowardice.
Look at them, what difference is it to them if the Earth rotates around the Sun or vice versa?
Or if the Universe has an end or is infinite?
You are silent...
Maybe you think that the fire on which you'll burn
will light the way for your followers?
Then look. His name is Lucilio Vanini.
Twenty years from now, for the fact that he defended your ideas, the holy lords
will tear out his tongue, and then burn him.
As you can see, the fire will not change a thing.
But is it not treason to betray oneself?
To back off from what one created and for what one lived,
isn't that apostasy?
Oh, you stubborn man...
Look, your student will teach you a lesson...
...in prudence.
This is Galileo Galilei.
In 34 years he will repent humbly
but he will say to himself: "And yet, it moves."
You are silent... and you think: "Fire incinerates the body,
but betrayal incinerates the soul.
He who is carried away by the greatness of his work does not feel the horror of death."
You repeat the words from my books.
You have read them.
I wrote them.
No, you did not write my books.
You are a miserable product of my weakness.
Disappear.
The choice is made.
Repeat Giordano. Do you continue to hold fast to the error and heresy,
into which you fell and have confessed to?
Or do you renounce it?
- No, I do not renounce.
We, the cardinals and inquisitors of the entire Christian state
condemn, and declare you, Giordano Bruno,
an unrepentant, stubborn and inflexible heretic.
Not worthy of the mercy of our holy and undefiled Church.
Moreover, we condemn, censor and prohibit all your books and writings.
Let them be publicly torn and burnt.
This is what we, cardinals-inquisitors, proclaim!
You are more afraid pronouncing this sentence to me, than I am listening to it.
To burn does not mean to refute.
At the dawn of February 17, year 1600, Giordano Bruno was burnt by the Inquisition.
Script writer - Vladimir Gaidai
Directed by Vladimir Goncharov
Art designer - Nina Guz
Composer - Ya. Lapinskiy
Camera - Aleksandr Muhin Sound - Igor Pogon
Animators: Nina Churilova, Igor Kovalyov, Natalya Marchenkova
Artists: Vladimir Goncharov, V. Petrishchev, N. Kraščina
A. Barmina, B. Volkov
Assistants: A. Vrublevskaya, I. Sergeyeva, A. Oprishko
Montage: S. Vasilyeva
Voice actors: A. Gashinskiy, B. Stupka
The film used paintings of the German artist Matthias Grunewald
Script-editor - Svetlana Kutsenko Production - N. Litvinenko
The End, Kievnauchfilm 1984 subtitles by Alevtina & Eus, September 2017 edited by Niffiwan (2021)