Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein is a 1993 drama and history movie directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Clancy Chassay, Karl Johnson and Michael Gough. It runs 1h 12m and is rated NR. TMDB users rate it 6.4 out of 10. Streaming in the US on Kino Film Collection and BFI Player.

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.