Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel star in the recent Toronto world premiere about the Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Matthew Brown directed The Man Who Knew Infinity from his adaptation of Robert Kanigel’s biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of The Genius Ramanujan.
Click here for Screen’s interview with Dev Patel
Click here for Screen’s interview with Jeremy Irons
The film takes place in the run-up to Wwi and charts the friendship between Cambridge don Gh Hardy and the young Indian prodigy.
Hardy, himself a renowned academic, was initially cagey but nonetheless intrigued when he received a letter of self-commendation from Ramanujan.
He brought the youngster under his tutelage at Cambridge and helped the school drop-out become India’s first Cambridge fellow. Ramanujan’s work continues to play an important role in string theory and research into black holes.
IFC Films negotiated for North American rights with CAA. Mister Smith handles...
Matthew Brown directed The Man Who Knew Infinity from his adaptation of Robert Kanigel’s biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of The Genius Ramanujan.
Click here for Screen’s interview with Dev Patel
Click here for Screen’s interview with Jeremy Irons
The film takes place in the run-up to Wwi and charts the friendship between Cambridge don Gh Hardy and the young Indian prodigy.
Hardy, himself a renowned academic, was initially cagey but nonetheless intrigued when he received a letter of self-commendation from Ramanujan.
He brought the youngster under his tutelage at Cambridge and helped the school drop-out become India’s first Cambridge fellow. Ramanujan’s work continues to play an important role in string theory and research into black holes.
IFC Films negotiated for North American rights with CAA. Mister Smith handles...
- 10/14/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Maths genius biopic stars Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.
The 11th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 24-Oct 4) is to open with the European premiere of The Man Who Knew Infinity, following its world premiere in Toronto next month.
Matthew Brown directs the film from a screenplay he adapted from Robert Kanigel’s novel The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.
The drama stars Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Stephen Fry and Devika Bhise, who will present the film in Zurich alongside Brown and producer Edward R. Pressman.
Set in 1913, The Man Who Knew Infinity tells the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Patel), a self-taught mathematics genius from India, who leaves behind his young bride, Janaki (Bhise), to travel across the world to Cambridge where he forges a bond with his mentor and eccentric professor G.H. Hardy (Irons), and becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories.
The film is an Edward R. Pressman/Animus Films Production...
The 11th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 24-Oct 4) is to open with the European premiere of The Man Who Knew Infinity, following its world premiere in Toronto next month.
Matthew Brown directs the film from a screenplay he adapted from Robert Kanigel’s novel The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.
The drama stars Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Stephen Fry and Devika Bhise, who will present the film in Zurich alongside Brown and producer Edward R. Pressman.
Set in 1913, The Man Who Knew Infinity tells the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Patel), a self-taught mathematics genius from India, who leaves behind his young bride, Janaki (Bhise), to travel across the world to Cambridge where he forges a bond with his mentor and eccentric professor G.H. Hardy (Irons), and becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories.
The film is an Edward R. Pressman/Animus Films Production...
- 8/25/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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