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Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-09-17

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

UK, Japan

Runtime:

72 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1368 Reviews)

Director:

Derek Jarman

Cast:

Writer:

Derek Jarman

Terry Eagleton

Ken Butler

Fullplot:

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), 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.

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