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Wittgenstein

Actor(s): Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Kevin Collins
Director(s): Derek Jarman

Movie Details

MPAA Rating: NR
Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Movie Release: 1993
DVD Release: 06/24/2008
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Edition: Restored/Remastered
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 9 mins
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Members Wishing: 5
Genres: Drama, Avant-garde / Experimental, Biopic [feature]

DVD Synopsis

Derek Jarman directed this witty, stylish biography of the life of the eccentric 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson). Wittgenstein is shown as a boy living a repressive youth, demonstrated by his family appearing in Roman togas. When Wittgenstein leaves to study under Bertrand Russell at Cambridge, he begins to investigate language and apply the strictures and constructs of language to philosophical study. The subject of Wittgenstein's homosexuality is depicted when, after World War I, he falls in love with a poor philosophy student, Johnny (Kevin Collins). Also portrayed is Wittgenstein's death at an early age from prostate cancer. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Actors

Karl Johnson - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Michael Gough - Bertrand Russell
Tilda Swinton - Ottoline Morrell
John Quentin - John Maynard Keynes
Kevin Collins - Johnny