enigma

Director: michael apted

Actor: dougray scott,kate winslet,saffron burrows,jeremy northam

Data Published: Fri Sep 28 2001

Genres: Drama,Mystery,Romance,Thriller,War

Key Words: code breaking,traitor,world war two,bletchley park,spy

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157583/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(2001_film)

Description: Enigma is a movie starring Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, and Saffron Burrows. A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

Plot: The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence. The British cryptanalysts have cracked the "Shark" cipher once before, and they need to do it again in order to keep track of U-boat locations. The film begins with Tom Jericho returning to Bletchley after a month recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by his failed love affair with a coworker named Claire Romilly. Jericho immediately seeks to see her again and finds that she mysteriously disappeared a few days earlier. He enlists the help of Claire's housemate, Hester Wallace, to follow the trail of clues and learn what has happened to Claire. Mr. Jericho and Miss Wallace, as they formally address each other, work to decipher intercepts stolen by Claire and determine why she took them. Jericho is closely watched by an MI5 agent, Wigram (Jeremy Northam), who plays cat and mouse with him throughout the film. Meanwhile, U-boats are closing in on a convoy of thirty seven ships from America, giving the code-breakers less than four days to find a solution to reading the changed Shark cipher. But someone else at Bletchley has a personal interest in the stolen intercepts, and may be responsible for Claire's disappearance.