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Breaking the Code (1996)
Directed by Herbert Wise
History, Drama, TV Movie · 1h 31m
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.
Cast
Derek Jacobi
Alun Armstrong
Blake Ritson
Prunella Scales
Harold Pinter
Richard Johnson
Amanda Root
William Mannering
Crew
- Director
- Herbert Wise
- Writer
- Hugh Whitemore
- Director of Photography
- Robin Vidgeon
- Editor
- Laurence Méry-Clark
- Producer
- Andrew Rowley, Jack Emery
Details
- Release date
- 1996-09-17
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC