The Uprising
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Film / 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Directed by
Matt Brown
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Dev PatelSrinivasa Ramanujan
Jeremy IronsG. H. Hardy
Toby JonesLittlewood
Devika BhiseJanaki
Stephen FrySir Francis Spring
Kevin McNallyMajor MacMahon
Jeremy NorthamBertrand Russell
Anthony CalfHoward
Pádraic DelaneyBeglan
Shazad LatifChandra Mahalanobis
Roger NarayanScribe
Arundathi NagKomalatammal
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Dhritiman ChatterjeeNarayana Iyer
Richard JohnsonVice Master Henry Jackson
Raghuvir JoshiNarasimha
Malcolm SinclairProfessor Cartwright
San ShellaDr. Muthu
Richard CunninghamHobson
Thomas BewleyBaker
Pip BarclayStudent
David Shaw-ParkerPorter
Dominic CazenoveWaiter
Nicholas AgnewAndrew Hartley
Alan BootyGrocer
Shenagh GovanPostal Worker
Alexander ForsythCadet
Enzo CilentiDoctor
Elaine CaulfieldHospital Nurse
Alex BartramHospital Doctor
Christopher RavenscroftJ. J. Thompson
Imogen SageNursie (uncredited)
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