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The Man Who Knew Infinity

What does it take to prove the impossible?

2016 · PG-13 · 1h 48m

Directed by Matt Brown

7.2

TMDB audience score
1,654 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Dev Patel
    Srinivasa Ramanujan

  • Jeremy Irons
    G. H. Hardy

  • Toby Jones
    Littlewood

  • Devika Bhise
    Janaki

  • Stephen Fry
    Sir Francis Spring

  • Kevin McNally
    Major MacMahon

  • Jeremy Northam
    Bertrand Russell

  • Anthony Calf
    Howard

  • Pádraic Delaney
    Beglan

  • Shazad Latif
    Chandra Mahalanobis

  • Roger Narayan
    Scribe

  • Arundathi Nag
    Komalatammal

  • Dhritiman Chatterjee
    Narayana Iyer

  • Richard Johnson
    Vice Master Henry Jackson

  • Raghuvir Joshi
    Narasimha

  • Malcolm Sinclair
    Professor Cartwright

  • San Shella
    Dr. Muthu

  • Richard Cunningham
    Hobson