The Imitation Game: Book vs. Movie
Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game (2014) draws on Andrew Hodges's 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Turing during the wartime effort to break Enigma, with Keira Knightley as fellow codebreaker Joan Clarke.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Andrew Hodges
- Year
- 1983
- Pages
- 768Buy book
Andrew Hodges traces Alan Turing's life from his early fascination with mathematics to wartime codebreaking and the development of ideas that help establish computer science. Alongside the scientific work, the biography follows his friendships, sexuality, and dealings with a society that criminalizes homosexuality. Turing's public achievements and private life emerge as inseparable parts of the same story.
- Director
- Morten Tyldum
- Writer
- Graham Moore
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 1 hr 54 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear
- Genre
- biographical, Drama, historical, LGBTQ-related, war
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
At Bletchley Park during the Second World War, Alan Turing joins a secret effort to decipher German military messages. He pursues a machine that could break Enigma, but first has to persuade colleagues and superiors to support a project that appears to be going nowhere. His growing partnership with fellow codebreaker Joan Clarke unfolds while he keeps another part of his life hidden.
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