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17 September 1993 (USA) morePlot:
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Don't waste your time moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Clancy Chassay | ... | Young Wittgenstein |
| Jill Balcon | ... | Leopoldine Wittgenstein |
 | Sally Dexter | ... | Hermine Wittgenstein |
| Gina Marsh | ... | Gretyl Wittgenstein |
| Vanya Del Borgo | ... | Helene Wittgenstein |
| Ben Scantlebury | ... | Hans Wittgenstein |
| Howard Sooley | ... | Kurt Wittgenstein |
| David Radzinowicz | ... | Rudolf Wittgenstein |
| Jan Latham-Koenig | ... | Paul Wittgenstein |
| Tony Peake | ... | Tutor |
| Michelle Wade | ... | Tutor |
| Tanya Wade | ... | Tutor |
| Roger Cook | ... | Tutor |
| Anna Campeau | ... | Tutor |
| Mike O'Pray | ... | Tutor |
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Don't waste your time on this film.
Some films are so bad they are fun. This is just so bad it's boring.
From a Wittgenstein scholarship perspective, it doesn't get worse than this. It's a mix of rumors, inaccuracies, falsities and "fun-facts" that lack all respect for its subject. Since Terry Eagleton and the other writers have chosen to give the story what I'd imagine they will call a "subjective" or "personal" slant, you wold expect them to at least make it fun! No such luck.
Here what's wrong: 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber costumes. 2. Every eccentricity is exaggerated. 3. Horrible actors. 4. Wittgenstein was afraid of being misunderstood and only create a jargon self-proclaimed disciples would propagate. This film is what he had nightmares about. 5. Wittgenstein lived at a time when categories like "homosexual" weren't as firm as today. This films premise that "he was gay and therefore weird and a great philosopher" shows lack of respect. 6.It's a case study of why psychologising your subject leads to disaster. 7. They made an interesting person into a fraternity joke.
And, no. It's not bad in an interesting way. Do you're self a favour. Really.