IFC Films debuted the trailer for The Man Who Knew Infinity, an upcoming British biographical drama film.
The film stars Dev Patel as the real-life Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy (played by Jeremy Irons).
Based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. Directed and written by Matthew Brown.
The cast also includes Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally.
Synopsis:
“Colonial India, 1913. Srinavasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius, who failed out of college due to his near-obsessive, solitary study of mathematics.
Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Hardy recognises the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan’s raw talent and despite the scepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored.”
The Man Who Knew Infinity opens in UK on April 8 and April 29, 2016. in US.
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