starring Alfred Molina, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Ustinov (add more)
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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When Luther is talking to Katie after she sings to him, he says "people try to make me out to be a fixed star, but I'm not. I am a wandering planet." The planetary model in which stars are fixed (relatively speaking) and the planets are in motion was put forth by Galileo, who was not born until 1564. The scene in the movie takes place shortly before 1530, when the geocentric model of the universe was still the prevailing thought, even among an educated professor, such as Martin Luther. [Before Galileo (see e.g. the cosmological view in Dante's Comedy) the scientific concept of universe was precisely a series of spheres, including one of fixed stars, and a series of non-fixed "stars" called planets (remember this is an ancient Greek word for "wanderer") so Luther's words are 100% correct according to his times. Absolutely no question of any mistakes here.]
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