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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Bletchley Park was much larger than depicted in the film. At its peak, over 9,000 people worked the [...]	D
When the destroyed convoy is shown, there are a number of errors: 1) the merchant ships would never [...]	D
Double yellow line visible, in the village where Joan Clarke lives, despite not being introduced in [...]	D
Joan and Alan are seen lying on the grass, discussing mathematical operations which would become th [...]	D
Early on in the film, 6 minutes in, at Kings Cross Station in 1939, the children are being evacuate [...]	D
The real code-breaking machine was housed in a Bakelite box. The filmmakers decided they wanted to [...]	D
The structural frame of the prototype Bombe built by Turing in this movie appears to be constructed [...]	D
The coaching stock on the evacuee and military trains is of the British Railways Mark 1 type which [...]	D
During the victory celebration, the crowd is shown cheering and waving a British flag ("Union Jack" [...]	D
In the film, Turing hides his sexuality as though it was a very closely guarded secret. In real lif [...]	D
Alan Turing's Manchester computer (Baby, not another Christopher) was constructed at the university [...]	D
The narrative conceit of the film is that Alan Turing explains his curiously empty military record [...]	D
Kriegsmarine never sent 'hundreds of U-boats' as stated in the movie for any particular convoy, the [...]	D
In the scene set in King's Cross showing the evacuees, a 1960s office building is visible through t [...]	D
At around fourteen minutes, the first messages that Turing's team are supposed to work on are gener [...]	D
Alan Turing wrote to Joan after the war that he had been found out, but she did not visit him, as s [...]	D
Naming the first bombe machine "Christopher" is a fabrication of the film. The first bombe was actu [...]	D
At Kings Cross railway station a porter is shown wearing an LMS (London Midland and Scottish Railwa [...]	D
Alan Turing didn't design the machine by himself. W. Gordon Welchman, a mathematician not mentioned [...]	D
U-boats are shown operating within a dozen or so meters of each other. In reality they would never [...]	D
Turing gives a long explanation of "the imitation game" as a framing device for the entire movie. H [...]	D
When Hugh and Alan sit down with the girls in the pub, Hugh makes a reference to "kicking someone's [...]	D
The pattern of the crossword pinned up by Turing does not match that shown in the newspaper. [...]	D
The voice-over states that it would take ten men, checking one setting every minute, twenty million [...]	D
When the police are visiting Turing's home after the break-in, Nock introduces himself as 'Detectiv [...]	D
A caption at the end states that cracking Enigma was kept secret by the government for fifty years [...]	D
When Alan Turing is introduced to Hugh Alexander, it is said that Hugh Alexander is a national ches [...]	D
At the beginning of the movie we see some archive footage about WW2, Hitler and some warships. The [...]	D
When young Alan is called into the Headmaster's office to be told news of his close classmate, it i [...]	D
The account of how the team decided which messages to pass along is fictional. In real life, Stewar [...]	D
The first song played at Alan and Joan's engagement party during World War II is Cole Porter's "The [...]	D
The ship in which Peter Hilton's brother supposedly served was the HMS Carlisle. The HMS Carlisle w [...]	D
When Alan is revealing his sexual orientation to Joan and breaking off the engagement, a spot or pi [...]	D
When Hugh and Joan get up to dance, Peter also gets up to dance, leaving Alan, John and Jack at the [...]	D
The movie implies Alan Turing and Christopher Morcom shared a mutual attraction; however, in his wr [...]	D
Many interviews conducted with many of the people who worked at Bletchley Park have said many times [...]	D
In the opening scene, the police sergeant describes Turing as a 'professor at King's' and he is the [...]	D
London King's Cross station (possibly doubling up for another locale) did not have any overhead ele [...]	D
The real Alan Turing was not investigated for being a Soviet spy. He, in fact, reported a petty the [...]	D
In real life, Alan Turing was not told of Christopher Morcom's death after the fact. The junior hou [...]	D
A few examples of Americanism in speech which would not be used at that time. Turing twice uses the [...]	D
Turing comments that ULTRA's ability to collect military intelligence was like "having a tap on Him [...]	D
A German telegraphist is shown operating his radio when the U-boat is submerged. In truth, the equi [...]	D
Seventeen minutes into the film, one can see the silhouette of a ship belonging to the King George [...]	D
Alan Turing, Joan Clarke and Stewart Menzies discuss in a cafe the breaking of the Enigma code and [...]	D
Alan Turing's team calls him out, saying they are the only ones who have been making any progress. [...]	D
Detective Nock says that two professors became "radicalized" at Cambridge before they joined the co [...]	D
In the film Turing is shown single-handedly inventing and physically building the machine, which wa [...]	D
In real life, Alan Turing's marriage proposal to Joan wasn't a ploy to keep her at Bletchley Park. [...]	D
When the Heinkel 111's are bombing London, the bombs are seen to fall with a stable forward-facing [...]	D
(at around twelve mins) When the "new hires" are in the conference room and being introduced to the [...]	D
Early in the film, when Turing explains the importance of coded German radio messages, there is a b [...]	D
The Polish intelligence did not obtain the Enigma machine from the Germans, but in fact Polish math [...]	D
When Joan slaps Alan after he breaks off their engagement, she has a brown shoulder-bag/handbag. In [...]	D
The wristwatch that Turing wears is a Hamilton "Van Horn" (or "Titan") which was not made until 195 [...]	D
While the group is trying to decipher the daily Enigma code, the wall clock strikes midnight settin [...]	D
Joan Clarke describes "Euler's theorem" but pronounces it incorrectly. She pronounces it "YOU-ler" [...]	D
Part of the story Turing tells the detective in order to clear himself of spying for the Soviets, i [...]	D
At 39:55, Hugh throws a glass at Alan's computer, leaving debris on its surface; however, just seco [...]	D
In 1951, Nock uses typewriter correction fluid to change the name on a warrant to that of Turing. T [...]	D
After Joan and another person finish the crossword puzzle in under six minutes, they are sworn into [...]	D
Early in the film, in 1939 Turing crosses the village road, which is complete with parking-restrict [...]	D
In the radio message copying scene, the Morse characters heard are OJJB, but the copier writes KJJB [...]	D
The statement at the end of the film says that Alan Turing committed suicide. While this was the ve [...]	D
When Joan first arrives at Bletchley and steps off the bus, the frontal view of her shows her handb [...]	D
When the code breakers break their first message on the Bombe, Hugh Alexander reads out the German [...]	D
Turing's nephew Dermot, author of "Reflections of Alan Turing" and other titles relating to his unc [...]	D
Just before the film clips of the victory celebrations at the end of the war, there is a photo mont [...]	D
Benedict Cumberbatch's depiction of Turing suggests he was on the autism spectrum and struggled soc [...]	D
John Cairncross, who was an actual spy for the Soviets, is shown as working with Alan Turing and bl [...]	D
Close to the beginning of the film the word "hiring" is used, when Alan is taking his induction. Th [...]	D
When leaving Turing's home after investigating the break-in, the sergeant, wearing helmet and cape, [...]	D
The red cables wiring up the "bombe" have modern PVC outer insulation. PVC insulation did not come [...]	D
The newspaper article that describes Turing's conviction for indecency misspells the word trial as [...]	D
At the end of the war when everybody outside is celebrating, an extra wearing a WRAF cap has taken [...]	D
The bus seen heading into Bletchley Park is a Duple-bodied Bedford, registration number HOD75. Alth [...]	D
Turing comments that "Britain was literally starving to death" because of Germany's U-Boat blockade [...]	D
Both the burglary at Alan Turing's home and his subsequent investigation for homosexual activity (w [...]	D
In the flashback scene where schoolboys Alan and Christopher first talk about codes, at the very st [...]	D
When the Military Police search Turing's office at Bletchley Park, the same clip of a policeman emp [...]	D
In the bombing scene we see German Ju-88 bombers pounding London's City, with the Tower Bridge clea [...]	D
Turing lists the Ardennes as one of the battles influenced by Enigma. In actuality that battle open [...]	D
Inside the train, compartment signs say Standard Class. In the 1940s, passengers traveled third cla [...]	D
When Alan is at school in 1928, sitting with his friend Christopher, he has on his knee a paperback [...]	D
The date of Turing's report of the burglary in his home and his interrogation by the police is show [...]	D
After Alan is appointed leader of the group at Bletchley Park, he draws up a crossword puzzle to be [...]	D
While the group tries to decipher the daily Enigma code, the wall clock strikes midnight, setting o [...]	D
When Turing confronts Denniston about how Hugh has denied him funding, he talks about how the Enigm [...]	D
Unlike his well-groomed appearance in the film, the real Alan Turing was known to be careless with [...]	D
Commander Denniston tells Turing that everyone thinks that the Enigma is unbreakable. British Intel [...]	D
Joan was not hired after solving a crossword puzzle in the newspaper. She was at Bletchley Park alr [...]	D