
The Professor and the Madman
By Farhad SafiniaSynopsis
In 1857, Scottish lexicographer and philologist James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This monumental task would take him and his team between five and seven years. However, by “crowd sourcing” the work and enlisting definitions from people all over the world, the dictionary could be accomplished more rapidly. Professor Murray discovered that schizophrenic US Army surgeon Chester Minor had submitted more than ten thousand words while being interned in a British psychiatric hospital for the murder of an innocent stranger.
By
:
Farhad Safinia
Duration
:
1h41
With
:
Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan
Type
:
Fiction
Nationality
:
Ireland, France, Iceland, USA, Mexico, Belgium, UK & Hong Kong
Production : Nicolas Chartier & Gastón Pavlovich
Script : John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki & Farhad Safinia
Cinematography : Kasper Tuxen
Editing : Dino Jonäster
Music : Bear McCreary
Cast : Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan
Distribution : ACE Entertainment Films, +33 1 49 95 93 28, bp@ace-entertainment.com, www.ace-entertainment.com
In English with French subtitles
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