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Wittgenstein (1993)

Wittgenstein (1993)

Drama Comedy History

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Release Date: 1993, March 26
Directors: Derek Jarman
Countries: United Kingdom, Japan
Production: BFI, BFI, Bandung Productions, Bandung Productions, Film4 Productions, Film4 Productions
Cast: Karl Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Nabil Shaban, Kevin Collins, John Quentin, Stuart Bennett, Sally Dexter, Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sarah Graham, Roger Cook

Overview:

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

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