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The Physicists
*The Physicists* is a 1962 play by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt set entirely within the confines of a psychiatric sanatorium. The plot centers on three patients who each claim to be famous physicists—specifically Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Johann Wilhelm Möbius. As a series of murders o...
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The top alternative to The Physicists in 2026 is The Drowned and the Saved with a score of 9.4/10, followed by The Death of Ivan Ilyich (9.2) and The Man Without Qualities (9.2).
The Drowned and the Saved
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Man Without Qualities
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