Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code (1997)


Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code (1986)

Budget (GBP) 0
Distribution Company

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)   (Cultural Institution | Est. 1922)

Release Date 16 February 1997
Black and White No
Regional Release No
Release Notes Canada 17 September 1996;
USA 2 February 1997;
UK 5 February 1997;
USA 7 June 1998 (New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival);
Germany 3 June 2001;
Slovakia 5 November 2003 (Slovakia Gay Film Festival).
Description Based on the play of the same name, Breaking the Code examines the plight of Alan Turing (played by Derek Jacobi), the mathematical genius recruited by the British Government during World War Two to decipher the Germans' 'Enigma Code' and later persecuted for his open homosexuality. Pinter played the part of John Smith (a Home Office agent). "Harold Pinter [...] was so unnervingly spooky that I don't believe he was acting at all" (The Sunday Times, 9 February 1997).
Language English

Linked Productions

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Linked People

Hugh Whitemore

Creative | Author (original play)


Herbert Wise

Creative | Director


John Drury

Production | Executive Producer


Rebecca Eaton

Production | Executive Producer


Jack Emery (1944)

Production | Producer


Richard Langridge

Production | Executive Producer


Andrew Rowley

Production | Series Producer


John Rushton

Production | Line producer


Robin Vidgeon

Technical | Director of photography


Laurence Méry-Clark

Creative | Editor


Pippa Ailion

Technical | Casting Director


Barbara Gosnold

Creative | Production Designer


Fiona McNeil

Creative | Art Director


Frances Tempest

Creative | Costume Designer


Kate Benton

Creative | Makeup Artist


Kate Hodgson

Creative | Makeup Artist


Pam Meager

Creative | Makeup Designer


Simon Hinkly

Creative | First Assistant Director


Steve Robinson

Creative | Second Assistant Director


Andrew Woodhead

Creative | Third Assistant Director


Dave Channon

Technical | Construction manager


Jayne Libotte

Production | Production buyer


Ray Perry

Production | Property buyer


Philip Alton

Technical | Sound Editor


Maurice Hillier

Technical | Sound Recordist


Liam Ryan

Technical | Sound Engineer


Rupert Scrivener

Technical | Dubbing mixer


Jack Collins

Technical | Gaffer


Paul Harris

Technical | Electrician


Paul Hatchman

Technical | Grip


Danny Shelmerdine

Technical | Focus puller


Colin Vinton

Technical | Electrician


Berndt Wiese

Technical | Clapper loader


Peter Wing

Technical | Best boy


Ollie Clarke

Technical | Wardrobe master


Shirley Nevin

Technical | Wardrobe mistress


Mags Arnold

Technical | Assistant editor


Adam Richards

Production | Location manager


P. J. Simpson

Production | Location manager


Carole Brooks

Production | Production accountant


Julia Hallawell

Production | Unit Runner


Jane Jacomb-Hood

Production | Production Assistant


Susie Jones

Production | Script supervisor


Tanya Latif

Production | Production Coordinator


Ian Maxen

Production | Unit Runner


Stephen Rouse

Production | Unit Runner


Barbara Szabo

Production | Production accountant


Alan Williams

Production | Unit Runner


Linked Organisations

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Characters

Alan Turing (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Derek Jacobi (1938)

Mick Ross (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Alun Armstrong (1946)

Christopher Morcum (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Blake Ritson (1978)

Sara Turing (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Prunella Scales (1932)

Ron Miller (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Julian Kerridge

John Smith (Breaking the Code) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox (Breaking the Code) (Age: Not Specified)

Performer: Richard Johnson (1927 - 2015)

Patricia "Pat" Green (Breaking the Code) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Amanda Root (1963)

Smoker (Breaking the Code) (Age: Not Specified)

Uncredited.

Performer: Scott McKinstry (1965)

Linked Awards

Broadcasting Press Award

Unknown

Won.

BAFTA

Unknown

Nominated: Best single drama.

BAFTA

Unknown

Nominated: Best Actor: Derek Jacobi

Resources

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Sources

Harold Pinter's Official Website

http://www.haroldpinter.org/acting/acting_intv.shtml

URL

Description of film adapted from 'TV Acting' page.