FILM REVIEW
cast
-Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing -Alex Lawther as young Alan Turing -Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke -Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander -Rory Kinnear as Detective Robert Nock -Allen Leech as John Cairncross -Matthew Beard as Peter Hilton -Charles Dance as Commander Denniston -Mark Strong as Stewart Mezies -James Northcote as Jack Good -Tom Goodman-Hill as Sergeant Staehl -Steven Waddington as Superintendent Smith -Ilan Goodman as Keith Furman -Jack Tarlton as Charles Richards -Jack Bannon as Christopher Morcom -Tuppence Middleton as Helen Stewart -Andrew Havill as Teacher -James G. Nunn as Sherbourne -Victoria Wicks as Dorothy Clarke (Joan's mother)
goal
peace, justice and solid institutions
setting: Bletchley Park
Plot: Manchester, 1950, Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician and cryptography expert, is interrogated by the police officer who arrested him for indecent exposure. Turing begins to tell his story. During the Second World War, in which he and a small group of brains, including a chess champion and a puzzle expert, were entrusted with the task of decrypting the Enigma code, created by the Nazis to communicate their operations military in secret form.