Breaking the Code (1996)
1h 31m
Running Time
September 17, 1996Release Date
Breaking the Code (1996)
1h 31m
Running Time
September 17, 1996Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Derek Jacobi
Alan Turing
Alun Armstrong
Mick Ross
Prunella Scales
Sara Turing
Blake Ritson
Christopher Morcom
Harold Pinter
John Smith
William Mannering
Young Alan Turing
Julian Kerridge
Ron Miller
Herbert Wise
Director
Richard Johnson
Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox
Andrew Hodges
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Amanda Root
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jack Emery
Producer
Robin Vidgeon
Cinematographer
Laurence Méry-Clark
Editor
Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producer
Richard Langridge
Executive Producer
Barbara Gosnold
Production Design
Kate Benton
Makeup Artist
Andrew Rowley
Producer
Frances Tempest
Costume Design
Fiona McNeill
Art Direction
Philip Alton
Sound Editor
Pam Meager
Makeup Designer
Pippa Ailion
Casting
Kate Hodgson
Makeup Artist
John Drury
Executive Producer
Maurice Hillier
Sound Recordist
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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.