Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code — 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.

• Release date
• September 17, 1996
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• History, Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Herbert Wise

Breaking the Code — Cast

Derek Jacobi Alan Turing Alun Armstrong Mick Ross Blake Ritson Christopher Morcom Prunella Scales Sara Turing Harold Pinter John Smith

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Julian Kerridge Ron Miller Richard Johnson Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox Amanda Root Patricia 'Pat' Green