Poster

Breaking The Code

Year

1996

Genre

Biography, Drama

Country

UK

Director

Herbert Wise

Writer

Andrew Hodges, Hugh Whitemore

Producer

John Drury, Rebecca Eaton, Jack Emery, Richard Langridge, Andrew Rowley, John Rushton

Actors

Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson, William Mannering, Prunella Scales, Julian Kerridge, Harold Pinter, Richard Johnson, Amanda Root, Scott McKinstry

Description

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.

Comments

Duration

86 minutes (at 29.97 frames per second)

Filesize

700 MB

Video

MPEG-4 Visual - resolution: 640x416

Audio