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 |
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Creative | Author (original play)
Creative | Director
Production | Executive Producer
Production | Executive Producer
Production | Producer
Production | Executive Producer
Production | Series Producer
Production | Line producer
Technical | Director of photography
Creative | Editor
Technical | Casting Director
Creative | Production Designer
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Costume Designer
Creative | Makeup Artist
Creative | Makeup Artist
Creative | Makeup Designer
Creative | First Assistant Director
Creative | Second Assistant Director
Creative | Third Assistant Director
Technical | Construction manager
Production | Production buyer
Production | Property buyer
Technical | Sound Editor
Technical | Sound Recordist
Technical | Sound Engineer
Technical | Dubbing mixer
Technical | Gaffer
Technical | Electrician
Technical | Grip
Technical | Focus puller
Technical | Electrician
Technical | Clapper loader
Technical | Best boy
Technical | Wardrobe master
Technical | Wardrobe mistress
Technical | Assistant editor
Production | Location manager
Production | Location manager
Production | Production accountant
Production | Unit Runner
Production | Production Assistant
Production | Script supervisor
Production | Production Coordinator
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Production | Production accountant
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Performer: Derek Jacobi (1938)
Performer: Alun Armstrong (1946)
Performer: Blake Ritson (1978)
Performer: Prunella Scales (1932)
Performer: Julian Kerridge
Performer: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Performer: Richard Johnson (1927 - 2015)
Performer: Amanda Root (1963)
Uncredited.
Performer: Scott McKinstry (1965)
Broadcasting Press Award
Unknown
Won.
BAFTA
Unknown
Nominated: Best single drama.
BAFTA
Unknown
Nominated: Best Actor: Derek Jacobi
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