Breaking the Code

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.

Data de estreia
1996-09-17
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (19)
Duração
1 h 31 min
Géneros
História, Drama, Cinema TV
Realizador
Herbert Wise

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Curiosidades

Breaking the Code is a 1996 BBC television movie directed by Herbert Wise, based on the 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, the play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality.

Production

The film is based on Hugh Whitemore's play of the same name, which was itself adapted from Alan Turing: The Enigma, the biography of Turing written by Andrew Hodges. Derek Jacobi had previously starred in an eight-month run of the play at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London's West End beginning on 21 October 1986, and stayed with the production when it transferred to Broadway in New York City, running from 15 November 1987 to 10 April 1988.

It was broadcast by BBC1 on 5 February 1997 in the United Kingdom, and in the United States by PBS on Masterpiece Theatre. A producer's cut was released on DVD in 2012.

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