Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein (1992)

Genres - Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature]  |   Release Date - Sep 17, 1993 (USA - Unknown), Sep 17, 1993 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 75 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Paul Brenner

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.

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faith, family, homosexual, intellectual, labor [work], language, philosophy, portrait, prison, problems, school, student, teacher, virtue, war

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High Artistic Quality