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Overview

User Rating:
6.4/10   9,176 votes
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Director:
Michael Apted
Writers (WGA):
Robert Harris (novel)
Tom Stoppard (screenplay)
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Release Date:
28 September 2001 (UK) more
Tagline:
10,000,000,000,000,000+ combinations - 24 hours to get it right more
Plot:
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations more
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(18 articles)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Enigma - Das Geheimnis (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for a sex scene and language.
Runtime:
119 min
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14 (New Brunswick/Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario/Saskatchewan) | Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 (f) | Brazil:14 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #37517)
Company:
Broadway Video more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Hester Wallace decodes the long list of Polish names the camera zooms in on the name "Zygalski". Henryk Zygalski was a Polish mathematician who helped to break Enigma. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the final scene, in London after the war (1946), Hester steps off the pavement and we see double yellow lines painted at the kerbside (denoting No Parking). These road markings were introduced much later. more
Quotes:
Jozef 'Puck' Pukowski: Tell me, are we hoping for the U-Boats to find our convoy?
Pinker: Of course not.
Baxter: I am.
[receives stares]
Pinker: You c-c-can't mean that!
Baxter: What? Sacrifice a convoy to get back into Shark? Of course I would. How many men has Stalin had to sacrifice so far? A million? Two million? It's called "the greater good."
Cave: Spoken like someone who isn't in the middle of the North Atlantic at this moment.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Detective Fiction (2003) more
Soundtrack:
You'll Never Know more

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21 out of 33 people found the following comment useful:-
Read the book, 5 May 2002
Author: Dirk-41 from England

... it is a faithful and gripping account of the activities of Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park codebreakers. The film is a soggy, anachronistic, fictionalised mess. The truth is far stranger and more compelling. A waste of an opportunity to redress the imbalance created by "U-5

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