Wittgenstein

Name: Wittgenstein
Director: Derek Jarman
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy
Released: 1993-03-26
Duration: 1 h 9 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Clancy Chassay, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Kevin Collins

Directed by Derek Jarman

Drama

History

Comedy

19931h 9m6.4

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.