The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Acting
Winslet's Hester is sharp, stubborn, and steals every scene.
Production
Bletchley Park re-created with obsessive period detail.
Director
Michael Apted
Dougray Scott
Tom Jericho
Kate Winslet
Hester Wallace
Saffron Burrows
Claire Romilly
Jeremy Northam
Mr. Wigram
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Puck
Tom Hollander
Logie
Donald Sumpter
Leveret
Matthew Macfadyen
Cave
Richard Leaf
Baxter
Bohdan Poraj
Pinker
Paul Rattray
Kingcome
Tom Fisher
Upjohn
Robert Pugh
Skynner
Corin Redgrave
Admiral Trowbridge
Nicholas Rowe
Villiers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Bletchley Park codebreakers were sworn to secrecy for 30 years; some died without ever telling their families what they accomplished.
The film controversially sidelined Alan Turing—the actual genius behind the breakthrough—in favor of a fictional tortured mathematician and a romance plot.
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