Movie
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Overview
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Details
- Release date
- 2016-04-08
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Animus Films, Pressman Film, Kreo Films, Xeitgeist Entertainment Group, American Entertainment Investors, Cayenne Pepper Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Jeremy Irons as G. H. Hardy
- Toby Jones as Littlewood
- Devika Bhise as Janaki
- Stephen Fry as Sir Francis Spring
- Kevin McNally as Major MacMahon
- Jeremy Northam as Bertrand Russell
- Anthony Calf as Howard
- Pádraic Delaney as Beglan
- Shazad Latif as Chandra Mahalanobis
- Roger Narayan as Scribe
- Arundathi Nag as Komalatammal
Crew
- Matt Brown - Director
- Matt Brown - Writer
- Matt Brown - Screenplay
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