The movie is a hodgepodge of like multiple novels chiefly the one called the far side of the world. Like I said he was born in 1914 he died in the year 2000 in the future. Do you remember when it just sounded so futurist at like everything that was supposed to be in the future was in the year2000. Yes. That's what math is. You're fighting the numbers and imaginary Nazis I think. He was with Paul Bettany in both beautiful mind and this one. No not my knowledge but. Not that I know it.