Breaking the Code

09/17/1996

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1hr 31min

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History

,Drama

,TV Movie

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Derek Jacobi
  • Alun Armstrong
  • Blake Ritson
  • Prunella Scales
  • Harold Pinter

    Director

  • Herbert Wise

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English