Breaking the Code

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.

5.235

91 min

Cast

Derek Jacobi

as Alan Turing

Alun Armstrong

as Mick Ross

Blake Ritson

as Christopher Morcom

Prunella Scales

as Sara Turing

Harold Pinter

as John Smith

Julian Kerridge

as Ron Miller

Richard Johnson

as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox

Amanda Root

as Patricia 'Pat' Green

William Mannering

as Young Alan Turing

Director

Herbert Wise