Overview
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.
Director and cast
- Damien Boisseau as Narrator (voice)
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
- Hermann Göring as Self (archive footage)
- Albert Sarraut as Self (archive footage)
- Paul Reynaud as Self (archive footage)
- Maurice Gamelin as Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)
- Bernard Pivot as Self (archive footage)
- Paul Paillole as Self (archive footage)
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