Derek Jarman	...	(Director)
Ken Butler, Terry Eagleton, Derek Jarman	...	(Writer)
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
James Welland	...	Cinematographer
Budge Tremlett	...	Editor

Summary: A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), 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.