Release Date

26 Mar, 1993

Runtime

01:12: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Wittgenstein

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Actors

Clancy Chassay

Karl Johnson

Michael Gough

Tilda Swinton

Kevin Collins

Nabil Shaban

Sally Dexter

Lynn Seymour

Jill Balcon

Gina Marsh

Vanya Del Borgo

Ben Scantlebury

Howard Sooley

David Radzinowicz

Jan Latham-Koenig

John Quentin

Layla Alexander Garrett

Donald McInnes

Tony Peake

Michelle Wade

Tania Wade

Crew

Derek Jarman

Sandy Powell

Jan Latham-Koenig

Terry Eagleton

James Welland

Derek Jarman

Budge Tremlett

Tariq Ali

Ben Gibson

浅井隆

Ken Butler

Annie LaPaz

George Richards

Davina Nicholson