The true enigma was the man who cracked the code.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Benedict CumberbatchAlan Turing
- Keira KnightleyJoan Clarke
- Matthew GoodeHugh Alexander
- Rory KinnearDetective Robert Nock
- Allen LeechJohn Cairncross
- Matthew BeardPeter Hilton
- Charles DanceCommander Denniston
- Mark StrongStewart Menzies
- James NorthcoteJack Good
- Tom Goodman-HillSergeant Staehl
Crew
- Morten TyldumDirector
- Graham MooreWriter
- Óscar FauraDirector of Photography
- Alexandre DesplatOriginal Music Composer
- William GoldenbergEditor
- Teddy SchwarzmanProducer
- Ido OstrowskyProducer
- Nora GrossmanProducer
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