Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code

Release Date: 1996-09-17

Overview: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

Rating: 5.1 / 10

Cast

Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

as Alan Turing

Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong

as Mick Ross

Blake Ritson

Blake Ritson

as Christopher Morcom

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

as Sara Turing

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

as John Smith

Crew

  • Herbert Wise - Director

  • Andrew Hodges - Book

  • Hugh Whitemore - Writer

  • Fiona McNeill - Art Direction

  • Robin Vidgeon - Director of Photography

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