SYNOPSIS: As profoundly simple as its hero’s famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini’s Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
| René Descartes | Ugo Gardea |
| Elena | Anne Pouchie |
| Isaak Beeckman | Kenneth Belton |
| Astronomo Ciprus | Vernon Dobtcheff |
| Constantin Huygens | Renato Montalbano |
| Servo Bretagne | Gabriele Banchero |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| Producer | Renzo Rossellini |
| Screenplay | Roberto Rossellini, Luciano Scaffa and Marcella Mariani |
| Script consultant | Ferdinand Alquie |
| Cinematography | Mario Montuori |
| Editing | Jolanda Benvenuti |
| Music | Mario Nascimbene |
| Costumes | Marcella de Marchis |
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