

Wittgenstein
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.
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- English
- biography
- lgbt
- gay theme
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NR17 Sept 1993
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1226 Mar 1993
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival10 Sept 1993
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival16 Feb 1993
- Theatrical1210 Feb 1994
ItalyIT
- Theatrical20 Feb 2023
TaiwanTW
- PremierePortraits Beyond Biopics (TFAI)20 Dec 2025
- PremiereTaipei Literature Festival22 May 2026
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Wittgenstein was released on 26 March 1993.
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CinemaSerf
1/5/2026
Told by way of some theatrical style sketches, this quite engagingly depicts not only the life of the acclaimed philosopher but it also shines an entertaining light on just what “philosophy” actually might be. I say might be because what is clear between himself (latterly Karl Johnson), Bertrand Russell (Michael Gough) and John Maynard Keynes (John Quentin) is that nothing is definite. His thrust centres around the l…
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