The film, in a series of sketches, depicts Wittgenstein's life from boyhood, through the first World War period to his Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes.

• Teddy Award for best feature film, 1993

Critical reception for the film has been generally positive and the movie holds a rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews. Derek Elley of Variety described it as an "immaculately lensed, intellectual joke" with a "gay subtext".

• Clancy Chassay as young Wittgenstein
• Karl Johnson as adult Wittgenstein
• Nabil Shaban as Martian

• Eagleton, Terry (1993). Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, The Derek Jarman Film. London, England: British Film Institute, pp. 151.

• List of avant-garde films of the 1990s

• Wittgenstein at IMDb
• Wittgenstein at AllMovie
• Wittgenstein at Rotten Tomatoes