Breaking the Code

(1996)

★ 5.6 IMDb · 19 votes

Genres: History, Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1996

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Herbert Wise

Cast: Дерек Якоби, Алан Армстронг, Блейк Ритсон, Прунелла Скейлс, Harold Pinter, Julian Kerridge, Ричард Джонсон, Amanda Root, William Mannering

Plot

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.