Enigma

Name: Enigma
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Romance, War
Released: 2001-01-22
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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Enigma (2001)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Release date

2001-01-22

Country

Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Production

Miramax, Broadway Video, Intermedia, Senator Film, Meespierson Film CV, Manhattan Pictures International, Mulholland Pictures BV, Jagged Films

Genre

Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Romance, War

Budget

Box office

$15 705 007

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Director

Michael Apted

Actors

Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hollander, Donald Sumpter, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard Leaf, Bohdan Poraj
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Scenario

Producer

Mick Jagger, Lorne Michaels, David Brown, Guy East, Thomas Garvin, Hanno Huth, Victoria Pearman, Nigel Sinclair, Michael White

Camera operator

Seamus McGarvey

Composer

John Barry

Artist

John Beard, Iain Anderson, Caroline Garrett

Audition

Mary Selway, Amanda Mackey, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond

Editing

Rick Shaine
Whole Team (69)

Short description

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

What's left behind the scenes

When Kate Winslet's character deciphers a long list of Polish surnames, the surname Zygański is shown in close-up. Henryk Zygalski (1908-1978) was a Polish cryptographer who, along with his colleagues, cracked the mechanism of the Enigma cipher machine.
The original Enigma coding device was provided to the film crew by its owner – Mick Jagger.
The mansion in Bletchley Park is not the same mansion that housed the Government Code and Cypher School during World War II. The filmmakers did not like that particular mansion, so they filmed at a different building.
Bletchley Park is a manor house in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. During World War II, it housed the main codebreaking division of Great Britain, then known as the Government Code and Cypher School. It was here that Operation Ultra was planned to decipher Enigma messages. London officially acknowledged the existence of the division only in the 1970s.
The character of Dugrey Scott is based on the mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912-1954).
During the filming, Kate Winslet was pregnant, so when her character becomes pregnant towards the end of the film, she did not require a prosthetic belly.
Several women who served at Bletchley Park during the war criticized Kate Winslet for her tasteless outfit and generally unpretentious appearance in the film. The women claimed that, despite the wartime conditions, they always tried to dress impeccably. The actress replied that she had no idea how her character dressed and passed the buck to costume designer Shirley Russell (1935-2002).
One of the reasons for deciding to make this film was the indignation of British World War II veterans, both military and civilian, caused by the release of Jonathan Mostow's war drama "U-571" (2000), which attributed the credit for capturing the "Enigma" machine to the Allied forces exclusively to the Americans. (Although the filmmakers indicated that the plot was fictional.)