Overview - Wittgenstein

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: 0.559

  

• Name: Karl Johnson

  Character: Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Popularity: 7.809

  

• Name: Michael Gough

  Character: Betrand Russell

  Popularity: 8.435

  

• Name: Tilda Swinton

  Character: Lady Ottoline Morrell

  Popularity: 18.008

  

• Name: Kevin Collins

  Character: Johnny

  Popularity: 0.379

  

• Name: Nabil Shaban

  Character: Martian

  Popularity: 1.821

  

• Name: Sally Dexter

  Character: Hermine Wittgenstein

  Popularity: 2.649

  

• Name: Lynn Seymour

  Character: Lydia Lopokova

  Popularity: 0.959