Overview - Wittgenstein
Date of release
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Spoken Languages
- English
Production companies
Name: BFI
Production country United Kingdom
Name: Bandung Productions
Production country United Kingdom
Name: Channel 4 Television
Production country United Kingdom
Name: Uplink
Production country Japan
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.
Cast
Name: Clancy Chassay
Character: Young Wittgenstein
Popularity: 0.4262
Name: Karl Johnson
Character: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Popularity: 1.5217
Name: Michael Gough
Character: Betrand Russell
Popularity: 1.4112
Name: Tilda Swinton
Character: Lady Ottoline Morrell
Popularity: 4.5343
Name: Kevin Collins
Character: Johnny
Popularity: 0.7425
Name: Nabil Shaban
Character: Martian
Popularity: 0.8421
Name: Sally Dexter
Character: Hermine Wittgenstein
Popularity: 0.888
Name: Lynn Seymour
Character: Lydia Lopokova
Popularity: 0.6761
