Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- biography
- lgbt
- gay theme
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Clancy Chassay
Young Wittgenstein
Karl Johnson
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Michael Gough
Betrand Russell
Tilda Swinton
Lady Ottoline Morrell
- Kevin Collins — Johnny
- Nabil Shaban — Martian
- Sally Dexter — Hermine Wittgenstein
- Lynn Seymour — Lydia Lopokova
- Jill Balcon — Leopoldine 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
- Directed
- Derek Jarman
- Written
- Derek Jarman, Ken Butler, Terry Eagleton
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 90 ratings
- Studio
- BFI, Bandung Productions, Film4 Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
