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World War II drama about an emotionally fragile code-breaker who is called back to the scene of his mental breakdown when the Enigma machine fails to crack the new German code. However, these U-boat cryptograms are not the only problem to contend with when it is discovered that a German mole has infiltrated the Enigma project. Based on a true story.

Keywords:

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War, Sex, Historical, History, Based-on-Novel, Based-on-True-Story, World War, War Drama, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, WWII, Nazi, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(2001) (UK / USA / Germany / Netherlands) (3 Star)

Cast:

Dougray Scott	.... Tom Jericho
Kate Winslet	.... Hester Wallace
Saffron Burrows	.... Claire Romilly
Jeremy Northam	.... Wigram
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	.... Jozef 'Puck' Pukowski
Tom Hollander	.... Logie

Supporting Cast:

Donald Sumpter	.... Leveret
Matthew Macfadyen	.... Cave
Richard Leaf	.... Baxter
Ian Felce	.... Proudfoot
Bohdan Poraj	.... Pinker
Paul Rattray	.... Kingcome
Richard Katz	.... De Brooke
Tom Fisher	.... Upjohn
Robert Pugh	.... Skynner

Directors:

Michael Apted

Writers:

Robert Harris
Tom Stoppard