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Wittgenstein (1993)

Film · 1993 · 72 min · NR · Drama · History · Comedy

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

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.

Directed by Derek Jarman

Starring Clancy Chassay, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Kevin Collins, Nabil Shaban, Sally Dexter, Lynn Seymour

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In cinemas17 September 1993
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First release anywhere26 March 1993

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