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The Imitation Game is a nail-biting race
against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and
credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain 's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park , during the darkest days of World
War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war,
saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British
establishment, but his work and legacy live on.
THE IMITATION GAME stars Benedict
Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, TV's Sherlock) as Alan Turing and Keira
Knightley (Atonement) as close friend and fellow code-breaker Joan Clarke,
alongside a top notch cast including Matthew Goode (A Single Man), Mark Strong
(Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Charles Dance (Gosford Park,
TV's Game of Thrones), Allen Leech (In Fear, TV's Downton Abbey) and Matthew
Beard (An Education).
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Alan Turing biopic The
Imitation Game named as London
film festival opener
Prestigious red-carpet slot in London 's West End goes to life story of renowned codebreaker,
starring Benedict Cumberbatch
Andrew Pulver
theguardian.com,
Monday 21 July 2014 / http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/21/alan-turing-imitation-game-benedict-cumberbatch-london-film-festival
The London film festival has
announced that the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game will be the opening
film for its 58th edition.
Starring
Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, the film is expected to help elevate even
further the reputation of the pioneering British scientist, whose work was
crucial to cracking German cypher codes during the second world war but who
then killed himself in 1954 after being prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952
after the revelation of a then-illegal gay relationship. Prime minister Gordon
Brown released a statement of apology in 2009 on behalf of the British government
for the "appalling" treatment of Turing.
Directed by
Morten Tyldum and co-starring Keira Knightley as Turing's friend and fellow
code-breaker Joan Clarke, the London film
festival screening is being billed as a European premiere, which suggests the
film's world premiere will be held outside Europe, most likely at the Toronto film festival in
early September.
The London film festival runs
from 8-19 October
Alan Turing biopic accuracy questioned
Film starring
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley accused of romanticising pioneering
scientist's life
Andrew
Pulver
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theguardian.com,
Tuesday 19 November 2013 / http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/19/alan-turing-film-biopic-accuracy-keira-knightley-benedict-cumberbatch
Alan
Turing's niece Inagh Payne has questioned the accuracy of The Imitation Game,
the forthcoming biopic of her uncle, the codebreaker and pioneering computer
scientist, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Speaking to
the Mail on Sunday, Payne particularly expressed concern over the casting of
Keira Knightley as parson's daughter Joan Clarke, who worked at Bletchley Park with Turing and was briefly engaged
to him.
"Joan
Clarke was rather plain," Payne said. "But she was very nice, bright
and a good friend to Alan... When he told her about how he was she accepted it,
didn't make a scene or anything like that."
"I
think they might be trying to romanticise it. It makes me a bit mad. You want
the film to show it as it was, not a lot of nonsense."
Turing
worked at Bletchley Park as a codebreaker during the second world war,
before joining the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the early
computer ACE, and then Manchester
University 's Computing
Laboratory. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952, and accepted
"chemical castration" – hormone treatment – to avoid imprisonment. He
killed himself two years later, in 1954.
In 2009,
prime minster Gordon Brown issued an apology on behalf of the government for
its treatment of Turing, and parliament agreed to pass a bill giving him a
posthumous pardon.
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