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| Year: | 2001 |
| Rating: | 6.4(10176) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War |
| Directed by: | Michael Apted |
| Actors: | Dougray Scott Jeremy Northam Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Tom Hollander Kate Winslet Saffron Burrows |
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Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Michael Apted | |
| Actors | |
| Dougray Scott | as Thomas Jericho |
| Jeremy Northam | as Wigram |
| Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | as Puck |
| Tom Hollander | as Logie |
| Donald Sumpter | as Leveret |
| Matthew Macfadyen | as Cave |
| Richard Leaf | as Baxter |
| Ian Felce | as Proudfoot |
| Bohdan Poraj | as Pinker |
| Paul Rattray | as Kingcome |
| Richard Katz | as De Brooke |
| Tom Fisher | as Upjohn |
| Robert Pugh | as Skynner |
| Corin Redgrave | as Admiral Trowbridge |
| Nicholas Rowe | as Villiers |
| Angus MacInnes | as Commander Hammerbeck |
| Michael Troughton | as Mr. Mermagen |
| Edward Hardwicke | as Heaviside |
| Tim Bentinck | as U-boat Commander |
| Adrian Preater | as RAF Corporal |
| Edward Woodall | as Bletchley Brain |
| Hywel Simons | as Male Lodger |
| Martin Glyn Murray | as RAF Officer |
| Wilhelm Brückner | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Wayne Docksey | as Police Dog Handler |
| Josef Goebbels | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Adolf Hitler | as Himself |
| Mick Jagger | as Soldier in Bar |
| Viktor Lutze | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Lee Montague | |
| Tim Pruce | as RAF Officer |
| Julius Schaub | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Werner von Blomberg | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Werner von Fritsch | as Himself - Accompanying Hitler |
| Actresses | |
| Kate Winslet | as Hester Wallace |
| Saffron Burrows | as Claire |
| Mary MacLeod | as Mrs. Armstrong |
| Anne-Marie Duff | as Kay |
| Rosie Thomson | as Duty Clerk |
| Emma Buckley | as Land Army Girl |
| Mirjam de Rooij | as Lady Lodger |
| Emma Davies | as Pamela |
| Isobel Tate |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, German |
| Gross: |
USA - 886,440 USD (12 May 2002) UK - 796,776 GBP (30 September 2001) Russia - 49,276 USD (4 August 2002) Spain - 868,733 EUR (7 September 2003) |
| Plot: | During the Second World War, a team of genius is put together near to London to study means of breaking the German code used in the communication. Tom Jericho broke this code in the past and had a break-down. Now his passion Claire Romilly is missing and the British counter-espionage system believes she is a German spy. Tom becomes closer the Claire's best girl-friend Hester Wallace and together they try to resolve the mystery of the disappearance of Claire in an war environment surrounded by suspicion and stress. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus'" Written by 'Ralph Vaughan Williams (as Vaughan Williams) Published by Oxford University Press Performed by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner (as Sir Neville Marrriner) Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" (1910) Music by Albert von Tilzer Lyrics Junie McCree Published by Redwood Music Limited and Francis Day & Hunter Limited Performed by Phil Green Orchestra Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited "Black Bottom" (1926) Music by Ray Henderson Lyrics by Lew Brown and Bud Desylva Harms Inc By kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Limited, Redwood Music Limited, Stephen Ballentine Publishing Company, Henderson Music Performed by Howard Lannin & His Orchestra Licensed by kind permission of BMG Entertainment International (UK & Ireland) Limited "One O'Clock Jump" (1933) Written by Count Basie Published by EMI United Partnership Limited Performed by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra Courtesy of Universal-MCA Music (UK) Limited Licensed by kind permission from The Film & TV Licensing Division, part of the Universal Music Group "Chorale Prelude No. 18, B W V 668, Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten Sein" Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J S Bach) Performed by Peter Hurford (organ) Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited "You'll Never Know" (1943) Music by Harry Warren Lyrics by Mack Gordon © Bregman Vocco and Conn Inc. By kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Limited Performed by Anne Shelton Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited "Andante from Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, B W V 1049" (1721) Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J S Bach) Performed by Aurèle Nicolet & Peter Reidemeisser (flutes) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester (as Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra) / Karl Münchinger Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited "Tiggerty Boo" (1940) Written by Hal Halifax (as Hal Hallifax) Published by Geraldo From the CD Hitz Of The Blitz Licensed Courtesy of Flapper Records "Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)" (uncredited) Music composer unknown Latin words by John Francis Wade (ca 1743) English lyrics by Frederick Oakeley (1841) Background music in one scene |
Goofs
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DATE: Some modern bulbs in close-ups of Enigma machines. DATE: In the opening scene we see concrete sleepers on the railway line which were not introduced until early 1980s. DATE: The black chimneys of Portcullis House, built in the late 1990s, can be seen in the long shots of the Houses of Parliament. DATE: Early in the movie someone uses the word "presently" to mean "at present" or "now". In the 1940s (and earlier) in England "presently" meant "soon, in a short time". DATE: Rape, though its bright yellow color makes for an attractive shot, was not planted in great quantities in England until the late 1970s. DATE: 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. Continuity: During the train journey towards the end of the movie, the view from Jericho's compartment shows the train going in opposite directions before and after the stop at the station, despite the fact that the train is seen leaving the station in the same direction as it arrived. DATE: Although set during the Second World War, all the scenes in and around Trafalgar Square show modern London buses in the background. Fact errors: In the opening scene in London, a UPS van can be seen, clearly not a 1945 UPS van but a nice new modern one. Fact errors: When Admiral Trowbridge storms off to his car after tearing strips off Skynner, Logie and Jericho he gives a British army salute (palm facing the person being saluted) and not a British naval one (palm parallel to the ground) before entering his car. DATE: The railway coaches seen in the film are British Railways Mk1 stock, which were not introduced until 1951. DATE: Some of the car scenes take place amongst fields that are clearly modern monoculture with huge tractor sprayer lines in the fields of grain. DATE: When Hester and Tom Jericho are sat in the car in the barn kissing, the light reflected off Hester's glasses, show them to be modern coated lenses. Coated lenses would not have been around during the 1940's. Fact errors: Near the end of the film, when the submarine explodes, our hero is nearby in the water. Unfortunately, water transmits waves exceptionally well. Anyone in the water for at least a square mile would be immediately killed from the shock. Fact errors: U-boats did not have a "klaxon" diving alarm. Continuity: When Hester takes the enigma machine out of the car and into her flat she does not take the box with the battery. The battery is not seen in subsequent shots. The battery was needed to use the machine. Fact errors: The program for the Brahms concert that Wigram finds in Jericho's coat is dated Friday, April 25, 1943. In 1943, April 25 fell on a Sunday. DATE: In the final scenes in Trafalgar Square in 1946 a shot shows a newspaper seller's placard with the headline "Churchill warns Egypt." However Churchill was not PM in 1946 and so was not in a position to warn anyone. Continuity: the steam locomotive number plate in some earlier scenes reads 63601 which is the British railways number from 1948 onwards. later the first 6 is mysteriously removed leaving 3601 which is accurate for that period |
Quotes
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Tom Jericho: I like numbers, because with numbers, truth and beauty are the same thing. Mermagen: D'you know, without your glasses, you don't look half bad. Hester Wallace: Do you know, without my glasses, nor do you? Tom Jericho: Puck and Claire were having an af... Wigram: Were seeing each other, as you like to put it. Seeing each other's brains out. Tom Jericho: Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Skynner: Tom's been on sick leave for the last month, so I don't think he's fully... Tom Jericho: Enigma is a very sophisticated enciphering machine, and Shark is its ultimate refinement. So... we're not talking about the Times crossword here. Tom Jericho: It weighs twenty-six pounds, battery included, and goes anywhere. The Enigma machine - the Germans have thousands of them. Hammerbeck: What's it do? Tom Jericho: It turns plain-text messages into gobbledygook. Then the gobbledygook is transmitted in Morse. At the other end is another Enigma machine, which translates the message back to the original text. Hammerbeck: And you have one of your own. Logie: Uh, courtesy of the Polish Cipher Bureau. Hammerbeck: So what's the problem? Tom Jericho: The problem? The problem is the machine has a hundred and fifty million, million, million ways of doing it, according to how you set these three rotors, and how you connect these plugs. Press the same key any number of times, it'll always come out different. Hammerbeck: And that's Shark? Tom Jericho: No. No, no, no, this is the one we can break. Shark is enciphered on a special Enigma machine with a fourth rotor, designed especially for U-Boats - which gives it about four thousand million, BILLION starting positions. And, uh, we've never seen one. Hammerbeck: Holy shit... Hester Wallace: I seem to move in an endless circle, Mr. Jericho, from one patronizing male to another, always telling me what I am and am not allowed to know. Well, that ends here. Tom Jericho: Every day, our Typex machines have to be set the same way the Germans set their Enigmas. And figuring out the settings is the hard part. That's where the code breakers come in. Hester Wallace: What would Claire need to decipher the settings? Tom Jericho: She'd need a crib. Let's say this tombstone was in code. If I knew more or less who's buried here, I'd have a pretty good idea what the code meant. You try to work out the settings and then type the coded message into the Enigma machine. If the message comes out nonsense, the settings are wrong. If it comes out "Mary Jane Hawkins," you've broken Enigma for that day. Hester Wallace: Well done, Mr. Jericho, well done! Tom Jericho: Given the circumstances, Miss Wallace, I think we might risk first names. Hester Wallace: Hester. Tom Jericho: Tom. Wigram: Were you surprised when you heard that Admiral Donitz had changed the weather code? Tom Jericho: Well, the Germans were always nervous about Enigma. That was the reason Shark came on in the first place... Wigram: But the Germans believe Enigma's supposed to be infallible, because it would take people a thousand years to figure out the settings for one day, and they are changed every day. But we don't use people for that, do we, Mr. Jericho? Tom Jericho: No. Wigram: No. And that is the secret inside the secret: your thinking machines. Day and night, clackety-clack, programmed with a menu provided by your amazing brain, narrowing down the infinite possibilities to just a few million. And if anyone tells the Germans about that... there goes the war. Tom Jericho: It's true though, isn't it? The Katyn Massacre? Wigram: Oh, do shut up. There's a war to win, and Stalin's helping us win it. Claire Romilly: Poor you. I really got under your skin, didn't I? Tom Jericho: Seventeen signals, it's not enough yet. Cave: Well, why the hell not? Tom Jericho: When I'm done, we'll be looking for a needle in a haystack. But if we stop now, it'll be a hundred thousand haystacks. 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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