The Professor and the Madman (2019)

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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.

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Director

Farhad Safinia

Stars

Mel Gibson
James Murray

Sean Penn
Dr. William Chester Minor

Natalie Dormer
Eliza Merrett

Ioan Gruffudd
Henry Bradley

Jeremy Irvine
Charles Hall

Brendan Patricks
Winston Churchill

Adam Fergus
Alfred Minor

Jennifer Ehle
Ada Murray

Brian Fortune
Head Board Member

Aidan McArdle
Defence Attorney Clarke

Others...

Budget

25,000,000.00

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Keywords

based on novel, biography, professor, 19th century, mental patient, lunatic asylum, dictionary

Trailers

Production

22h22, Icon Entertainment International, Fastnet Films, Caviar Antwerp NV, Definition Films, Zik Zak Filmworks

Actor

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Ioan Gruffudd, Jeremy Irvine, Brendan Patricks, Adam Fergus, Jennifer Ehle, Brian Fortune, Aidan McArdle, David Crowley, Kieran O'Reilly, Bryan Murray, Oengus MacNamara, Christopher Maleki, Sean Duggan, Bryan Quinn, Steve Gunn, Malcolm Freeman, Joe McKinney, Olivia McKevitt, Shane Noone, Robert McCormack, Ronan O'Connor, John Morton, Abigail Coburn, Paul Gough, Lucas Browne

Creators

Farhad Safinia (Director), Kasper Tuxen (Director of Photography), Daniel Hubbard (Casting), John Boorman (Writer), Todd Komarnicki (Writer), Bruce Davey (Producer), Mel Gibson (Producer), Gastón Pavlovich (Producer), Tom Conroy (Production Design), John Gilbert (Editor), Simon Winchester (Book)

Alternative titles

Профессор и безумец (RU)
Професор і безумець (UA)

Release dates

19.04.2019 (TW)
18.04.2019 (BR)
25.04.2019 (RU)
28.03.2019 (GR)
21.03.2019 (IT)
07.03.2019 (HR)
20.06.2019 (DK)
06.06.2019 (UA)
10.05.2019 (US)