THE IMITATION GAME

Synopsis

Mathematician, logician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the pioneer of modern-day computing, is credited with cracking the codes produced by Germany's 'unbreakable' Enigma machine, which had 159 million million million possible settings. THE IMITATION GAME 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. The motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers had a powerful ally in Prime Minister Winston Churchill who authorised the provision of any resource they required. The film spans the key periods of Turing's life, from his unhappy teenage years at boarding school and the triumph of his secret wartime work on the revolutionary electro-mechanical 'Bombe', which was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval codes a day, to the tragedy of his post-war decline, following his conviction for a now outdated criminal offence.

Cast & Crew

Director

Morten Tyldum
Producer

Teddy Schwarzman, Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky
Screenwriter

Graham Moore
Director of photography

Oscar Faura
Protagonist

Benedict Cumberbatch (Alan Turing), Keira Knightley (Joan Clarke), Matthew Goode (Hugh Alexander), Mark Strong (Stewart Menzies)

Film Info