Wittgenstein

1993

English

6.9

♡ 9

83%

Derek Jarman Director

Michael Gough as Bertrand Russell

Sally Dexter as Hermine Wittgenstein

Tilda Swinton as Lady Ottoline Morrell

Karl Johnson as Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.