The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum
1940: Alan Turing, a mathematician and cryptographer, is commissioned by the British Government to crack the code of the famous German Enigma machine, which is thought to be unbreakable.
Scenario: Graham Moore d'après le livre d'Andrew Hodges
Cinematography: Oscar Faura
Editing: Andrew S. Eisen, William Goldenberg
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Distribution : Tamasa Distribution
The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum, tells the extraordinary story of the man often described as the co-inventor of the computer. Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays him, captures certain facets of this eccentric character – a man who was extravagantly eccentric, with his trousers held up by bits of string, who would cycle around with a gas mask on to protect himself from hay fever… (...) Turing enjoyed his first came to fame in 1936, when he proposed the theoretical existence of a programmable machine capable of performing all manner of calculations at great speed. Thanks to Turing, artificial intelligence was born. The war would enable him to put his theories into practice. In 1939, at Bletchley Park – a Victorian manor house which was home to the British intelligence decryption services – he set about building a machine capable of unravelling the mysteries of the Enigma code."" (Franck Nouchi; Le Monde)