The Imitation Game

Titolo originale: The Imitation Game
Regia: Morten Tyldum
Anno: 2014
Origine: United States of America
Generi: Storia Dramma Thriller Guerra
Tag: england | homophobia | world war ii | mathematician | genius | biography | male homosexuality | code breaking | lgbt | logician | cryptography | math genius | gay theme | codes | intense | amused | assertive | commanding |
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch Keira Knightley Matthew Goode Rory Kinnear Allen Leech Matthew Beard Charles Dance Mark Strong James Northcote Tom Goodman-Hill Steven Waddington Ilan Goodman Jack Tarlton Alex Lawther Jack Bannon Tuppence Middleton Dominic Charman James G. Nunn Charlie Manton David Charkham Victoria Wicks Andrew Havill Laurence Kennedy Tim van Eyken Will Bowden Miranda Bell Tim Steed Hayley Joanne Bacon Nicholas Blatt Ancuta Breaban Alex Corbet Burcher Grace Calder Richard Campbell Daniel Chapple Lisa Colquhoun Alexander Cooper Leigh Dent Sam Exley Dennis Good Debra Leigh-Taylor Stuart Matthews Joseph Oliveira David G. Robinson Mark Underwood Nicola-Jayne Wells Josh Wichard Joshua Wichard

Manchester, primi anni '50. Alan Turing, brillante matematico ed esperto di crittografia, viene interrogato dall'agente di polizia che lo ha arrestato per atti osceni. Turing inizia a raccontare la sua storia partendo dall'episodio di maggiore rilevanza pubblica: il periodo, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, in cui fu affidato a lui e ad un piccolo gruppo di cervelloni, fra cui un campione di scacchi e un'esperta di enigmistica, il compito di decrittare il codice Enigma, ideato dai Nazisti per comunicare le loro operazioni militari in forma segreta. È il primo di una serie di flashback che scandaglieranno la vita dello scienziato morto suicida a 41 anni e considerato oggi uno dei padri dell'informatica in quanto ideatore di una macchina progenitrice del computer.

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Benedict Cumberbatch confessed that in one of the final scenes of the film, he couldn't stop cr [...]	D
This is the screenwriting debut of Graham Moore. He had wanted to write a film about Alan Turin [...]	D
While being interrogated about indecent behavior, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) explains e [...]	D
There have been numerous articles and books written about the Enigma code breach; however, the [...]	D
The 'bombe' machine 'Christopher' seen in the film, is based on a replica of Alan Turing's orig [...]	D
Prior to acquiring the rights for Andrew Hodges' biography, the film was based on the efforts o [...]	D
On 8 November 2014, The Weinstein Company co-hosted a private screening of the film with Digita [...]	D
Despite earlier reservations, Turing's niece Inagh Payne told Allan Beswick of BBC Radio Manche [...]	D
One of Benedict Cumberbatch's best-known roles is the title character in Sherlock (2010). Both [...]	D
The film's screenplay topped the annual Blacklist for best non-Hollywood scripts of 2011.	D
On November 27, 2014, ahead of the film's US release, The New York Times reprinted the original [...]	D
Turing's nephew Dermot, author of "Reflections of Alan Turing" and other titles relating to his [...]	D
The film references the way Alan Turing took his own life. When the police first visit his home [...]	D
The National Cryptologic Museum next to the NSA headquarters in Maryland has a US Navy Bombe th [...]	D
At the interrogatory scene, Turing describes the famous "Turing Test".In the original illustrat [...]	D
Framed tortoise shells are seen hanging on the walls of Turing's home. This is an allusion to h [...]	D
One of the dancers at the Engagement Party is a distant relative of the real Alan Turing.	D
"If any young person ever felt like they aren't quite sure who they are, or aren't allowed to e [...]	D
Before playing Alan Turing in this film, Benedict Cumberbatch also starred in La talpa (2011) a [...]	D
Alan Turing had already left Bletchley Park in 1939 before World War II began.	D
Joan's friend Helen mentions that an Enigma operator used the name of his girlfriend, Cilly, as [...]	D
"Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges served as the main inspiration of this film's script [...]	D
Some of the clothes worn by Alan have linear geometric patterns on them, hinting at his future [...]	D
Alan Turing has often been mistakenly credited with the achievements of Tommy Flowers and Polis [...]	D
Winston Churchill stated that the Bletchley Park codebreakers made the single greatest contribu [...]	D
In the Glenn Beck Book, "Dreamers and Deceivers," it mentions that Alan Turing was a big fan of [...]	D
Production designer Maria Djurkovic intended for the wallpapers in Alan Turing's house to be co [...]	D
Joan and Alan sit on the grass, and Joan says "... but Euler's Theorem gives you that immediate [...]	D
In Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (2012), Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock refers to the rumo [...]	D
In its review of the film, The New York Times has indicated a parental warning for "advanced ma [...]	D
TIME magazine ranked Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Alan Turing #1 in its "Best Performanc [...]	D
Despite second billing, Keira Knightley's character, Joan Clarke, doesn't appear until nearly a [...]	D
Benedict Cumberbatch obtained his baccalaureate degree in Drama at the University of Manchester [...]	D
Some information on the decryption work done at Bletchley Park was declassified by the British [...]	D
Google, which also sponsored the New York Premiere of the film, launched a competition called " [...]	D
Benedict Cumberbatch's actor father, Timothy Carlton, was also a student at Alan Turing's old s [...]	D
Keira Knightley (Joan Clarke) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Alan Turing) are close friends in real [...]	D
At the beginning of the film, as Turing is travelling to Bletchley, a clip of then-Prime Minist [...]	D
At several points in the film, the correct prewar BS 546 electrical sockets (round pins) were s [...]	D
Alan Turing is shown running in various scenes. It's never mentioned in the film, but he was a [...]	D
The Weinstein Company acquired the film for a record-breaking $7 million, the highest ever amou [...]	D
The scenes of young Alan during his schooldays were filmed at Sherborne School, where Alan was [...]	D
Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch appeared together in Fields of Gold (2002).	D
Benedict Cumberbatch landed his second TIME cover, this time for "The Genius Issue" of the maga [...]	D
To play Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch wore dentures, at his own behest. No one else demanded tha [...]	D
Catherine Princess of Wales's maternal grandmother used to work at Bletchley Park, just like Al [...]	D
A montage of German newsreel footage shows a brief clip of a tall man wearing civilian clothes [...]	D
In 2021 his nephew said Turing's contribution to the Allied victory in World War II has been gr [...]	D
Alexandre Desplat composed the score of the film in just two and a half weeks. He recorded and [...]	D
The film and its cast and crew were honored by Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil ri [...]	D
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley had personal milestones during the theatrical release [...]	D
Principal photography finished on November 11, 2013, which coincided with Remembrance Day.	D
Early in the film, Detective Nock mentions Burgess and Maclean in conjunction with Turing's sus [...]	D
One of two espionage films that actress Keira Knightley appeared in during 2014, the other bein [...]	D
Joyce Grove, the house used as Bletchley Park in the movie, was the childhood home of James Bon [...]	D
The scenes from Turing's childhood at the boarding school clearly indicate that he was somewher [...]	D
Peter Hilton (Matthew Beard) falls out severely with Alan Turing because of the effect his acti [...]	D
TIME magazine's chief film critic Richard Corliss titled his review of the film "Dancing with D [...]	D
Actress Keira Knightley and actor Benedict Cumberbatch previously both appeared in Espiazione ( [...]	D
Previously, J Blakeson was attached to direct and set up at Warner Bros.	D
The movie went on general release in the UK on November 14, 2014. Coventry was blitzed by the L [...]	D
Matthew Beard, who plays Peter Hilton, considered the Hut 8 Team as "The Avengers in Tweed".	D
Benedict Cumberbatch and Alan Turing are actually related in real life. According to the family [...]	D
Leonardo DiCaprio was originally slated to star.	D
Though Turing's surviving niece, Inagh Payne, agreed that Benedict Cumberbatch's casting as Ala [...]	D
The concept of the Enigma machine, a rotor based stream cipher device, was originally devised b [...]	D
Commander Dennison says that he has just "rejected one of our great nation's top linguists, kno [...]	D
About fifteen cast and crew worked on both the spy film La talpa (2011) and this movie, which w [...]	D
The blue pinstripe suit worn by Mark Strong throughout the film is an authentic suit from the 1 [...]	D
The bombe machine re-created by the filmmakers has been on display in a special "The Imitation [...]	D
Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher B [...]	D
In an interview for GQ, Matthew Goode stated that the film focuses on "Turing's life and how, a [...]	D
The scenes where Turing is waiting overnight for the machine to stop calculating could be a ref [...]	D
In 1951, when the police first arrive at Alan Turing's burgled flat, Turing is on the floor scr [...]	D
One scene showing the London Blitz had to be filmed on a Sunday, due to London's limited road-c [...]	D
The railway station shown in the movie is King's Cross railway station, London. The same statio [...]	D
At the time, 'computer' was the name or designation given to a person who was very good at work [...]	D
Helen's comment to Turing that the German radio operator uses his (supposedly) girlfriends name [...]	D
Alex Lawther, who plays the young Turing, and Benedict Cumberbatch both wore dentures in the fi [...]	D
Matthew Goode and Allen Leech play co-workers in this movie working with Alan Turing. They also [...]	D
In 2020 an official history of UK spy agency GCHQ said Bletchley Park's contribution to World W [...]	D
Benedict Cumberbatch played another famous English scientist, Stephen Hawking, in the BBC play [...]	D
Convicted in 1952 for homosexuality (still criminalized at the time), Alan Turing opted to rece [...]	D
In an interview with USA Today, Benedict Cumberbatch said of Turing's Royal Pardon, "The only p [...]	D
Mark Strong's character, Stewart Menzies, is the basis for James Bond's boss "M" (for Menzies). [...]	D
Christopher St began in 1799. It was a major part in the gay protest especially during the ston [...]	D
This is the English-language debut of Norwegian director Morten Tyldum.	D
At the end, Turing is portrayed as working on his own computer in Manchester. In reality, while [...]	D