Breaking the Code
Director Herbert Wise · Starring Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson
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.
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- Herbert WiseDirector
- Hugh WhitemoreWriter
- Derek JacobiAlan Turing
- Alun ArmstrongMick Ross
- Blake RitsonChristopher Morcom
- Prunella ScalesSara Turing
- Harold PinterJohn Smith
- Julian KerridgeRon Miller
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- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
- English
- PRODUCTION COMPANY
- BBC
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