Blaise Pascal (Film 1972)

Blaise Pascal is a 1972 television film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.

Cast & Characters
Pierre Arditi: Blaise Pascal
Rita Forzano: Jacqueline Pascal
Giuseppe Addobbati: Étienne Pascal
Christian De Sica: luogotenente
Livio Galassi: Jacques il servo
Bruno Cattaneo: Adrien Dechamps

Plot Summary: In France, towards the beginning of 1650, the young Blaise Pascal is a very skilled and intelligent scholar who lives by studying the principles of mathematics and mechanics already introduced by René Descartes (better known as Descartes), the inventor of the Cartesian plane and above all promoter of a philosophy that encompasses the characteristics of the unconscious and of the essence that acts freely (God) and of the being that is forced to end and that does not act freely (living creatures, especially man). As his first work, he publishes an essay on geometry and mathematics in which he explains the conics that would form a star not of five but of six points. However Pascal is not fully understood by his peers, due to his precocious genius. He struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.