THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
by Farhad Safinia
synopsis
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
original title: | The Professor and the Madman |
country: | Ireland, United States |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Farhad Safinia |
film run: | 124' |
release date: | HR 7/03/2019, IT 21/03/2019, GR 28/03/2019, LT 19/04/2019, BE 1/05/2019, NL 16/05/2019 |
screenplay: | John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki, Farhad Safinia |
cast: | Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Jennifer Ehle, Ioan Gruffudd, Jeremy Irvine, Aidan Mcardle, Brendan Patricks, Adam Fergus, Kieran O'Reilly |
cinematography by: | Kasper Tuxen |
film editing: | John Gilbert, Dino Jonsäter |
art director: | Tom Conroy |
costumes designer: | Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh |
music: | Bear McCreary |
producer: | Nicolas Chartier, Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Gastón Pavlovich |
co-producer: | Léonard Glowinski, Macdara Kelleher |
executive producer: | Zev Foreman, Manu Gargi, Peter McAleese, Dominic Rustam, Tyler Zacharia |
line producer: | Jayson de Rosner |
production: | Fastnet Films, Icon Entertainment International (US) |
backing: | Irish Film Board (IE) |
distributor: | Eagle Pictures, Kinepolis Film Distribution, Dutch FilmWorks |