Breaking the Code (1996)
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.
- Date of release
- 1996-09-17
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Herbert Wise
Casting
- Derek Jacobi — Alan Turing
- Alun Armstrong — Mick Ross
- Blake Ritson — Christopher Morcom
- Prunella Scales — Sara Turing
- Harold Pinter — John Smith
- Julian Kerridge — Ron Miller
- Richard Johnson — Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox
- Amanda Root — Patricia 'Pat' Green
- William Mannering — Young Alan Turing
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