Breaking the Code
Release Date: 1996-09-17
Rating : 5.4/10
Duration : 91 minutes
Genres : History, Drama, TV Movie
Director : Herbert Wise
Writer : Hugh Whitemore
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
Julian Kerridge