Wittgenstein

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Actors: Clancy Chassay , David Radzinowicz , Mike O'Pray , Ben Scantlebury , Roger Cook , Gina Marsh , Michelle Wade , Jill Balcon , Jan Latham-Koenig , Howard Sooley , Anna Campeau , Vanya Del Borgo , Tanya Wade , Sally Dexter , Tony Peake

Director: Derek Jarman

IMDB Rate: 6.7 out of 10 (543 votes)

Plot Summary:A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), 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.