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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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.
HistoryDramaComedy 69 min 6.4/10 from 85 votes
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Cast
- Clancy Chassay as Young Wittgenstein
- Karl Johnson as Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Michael Gough as Betrand Russell
- Tilda Swinton as Lady Ottoline Morrell
- Kevin Collins as Johnny