Enigmata
Enigma is a 2001 espionage thriller film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. The script was adapted from the novel Enigma by Robert Harris, about the Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War.
Plot
The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence. The British cryptanalysts have cracked the "Shark" cipher once before, and they need to do it again in order to keep track of U-boat locations.
Cast
- Angus MacInnes
- Anne-Marie Duff
- Bo Poraj
- Corin Redgrave
- Donald Sumpter
- Dougray Scott
- Edward Hardwicke
- Edward Woodall
- Emma Davies
- Hywel Simons
- Jeremy Northam
- Kate Winslet
- Lee Montague
- Martin Glyn Murray
- Matthew Macfadyen
- Michael Troughton
- Mick Jagger
- Mirjam de Rooij
- Nicholas Rowe
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- Richard Leaf
- Robert Pugh
- Saffron Burrows
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland
- Tom Fisher
- Tom Hollander
More details
| author | Robert Harris Tom Stoppard |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Michael Apted |
| editor | Rick Shaine |
| events | World War II |
| genre | romance thriller |
| keywords | bletchley park buckinghamshire cat and mouse cipher cryptanalysis cryptanalysis of the enigma#m4 cryptanalyst enigma machine love affair mi5 nazi nazi germany nervous breakdown second world war shark cipher signals intelligence u-boat |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| nomination | BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film |
| producer | Lorne Michaels Mick Jagger |
| productionCompany | Broadway Video Jagged Films |
| publisher | BVI]] Manhattan Pictures |
| recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
| theme | spy war |