Wittgenstein (1993)

Directors

Derek Jarman

Cast

Clancy Chassay, Karl Johnson, Nabil Shaban, Michael Gough

The story

The film, in a series of sketches, depicts Wittgenstein's life from boyhood, through the first World War period to his Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis is on the exposition of his ideas and depicts his characteristics as a homosexual, an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker, and a genius.

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