Breaking the Code

Name: Breaking the Code
Director: Herbert Wise
Released: 1996-09-17
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson, Prunella Scales, Harold Pinter

Sep 17, 1996 · 1h 31m · History, Drama, TV Movie

⭐ 5.2· 17 votes

Director Herbert Wise

Writer Hugh Whitemore

Overview

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.