Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993)

Wittgenstein is directed by Derek Jarman and produced by Tariq Ali, and is based on the life of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1899-1951), who taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) from 1929 to 1947. A low budget work, this deals with the young Wittgenstein as an engineer in Manchester in the early years of the twentieth century to his death as a noted philosopher in Cambridge, UK. With Clancy Chassay as young Wittgenstein, Karl Johnson as the adult, Michael Gough as Bertrand Russell, Tilda Swinton as Ottoline Morrell and John Quentin1 as Maynard Keynes.