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Breaking the Code

, Herbert Wise
Harold Pinter, Alun Armstrong, Derek Jacobi, William Mannering
1996, UK
Enigma

This is the VHS release.

Summary

This is a moving biography of Alan Turing, a British mathematician instrumental in breaking the Enigma code. The movie portrays him as a brilliant thinker who was decorated for his service at Bletchley Park, but had the misfortune to be a homosexual at a time when this was a criminal offense in Britain. The action moves back and forth between the war years and the early 1950s, with a brief scene of Turing as a child in 1929.

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