Film Facts from The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch

the imitation game  During World War II, a mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans' notorious Enigma code  The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing, who saved millions of lives by cracking

Based on Andrew Hodges' 1983 biography, The Imitation Game has Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead, an actor now not just a global obsession but The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II

THE IMITATION GAME Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician who was instrumental in shortening World War II, having been employed by the British During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians