Wittgenstein 1993

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

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NR
Drama History Comedy

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.

Release Date 1993-03-26
Runtime 1h 15m
Directors Derek Jarman, James Welland
Producers Tariq Ali, Ben Gibson, Takashi Asai
Writers Terry Eagleton, Derek Jarman, Ken Butler