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Enigma

Year:

2001

Duration:

119 min

Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Michael Apted

Awards:

3 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2001-09-28

Filming Locations: Trafalgar Square, St James's, London, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $156,587 (USA) (21 April 2002)

Gross: $4,298,329 (USA) (24 November 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Bohdan Poraj

Enigma

Dougray Scott

Thomas Jericho

Kate Winslet

Hester Wallace

Saffron Burrows

Claire

Jeremy Northam

Wigram

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Puck

Tom Hollander

Logie

Donald Sumpter

Leveret

Matthew Macfadyen

Cave

Richard Leaf

Baxter

Ian Felce

Proudfoot

Paul Rattray

Kingcome

Richard Katz

De Brooke

Tom Fisher

Upjohn

Robert Pugh

Skynner

Corin Redgrave

Admiral Trowbridge

Nicholas Rowe

Villiers

Angus MacInnes

Commander Hammerbeck

Mary MacLeod

Mrs. Armstrong

Michael Troughton

Mr. Mermagen

Edward Hardwicke

Heaviside

Anne-Marie Duff

Kay

Tim Bentinck

U-boat Commander

Rosie Thomson

Duty Clerk

Emma Buckley

Land Army Girl

Mirjam de Rooij

Lady Lodger (as Mirjam De Rooij)

Adrian Preater

RAF Corporal

Edward Woodall

Bletchley Brain

Hywel Simons

Male Lodger

Emma Davies

Pamela

Martin Glyn Murray

RAF Officer

Wilhelm Brückner

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wayne Docksey

Police Dog Handler (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mick Jagger

Soldier in Bar (uncredited)

Viktor Lutze

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Lee Montague

(uncredited)

Tim Pruce

RAF Officer (uncredited)

Julius Schaub

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Werner von Blomberg

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Werner von Fritsch

Himself - Accompanying Hitler (archive footage) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Bevan Walsh

RAF Guard (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The scarf that Tom wears throughout the film is a King's College Cambridge scarf, which is the college Tom is a fellow of in the book.

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Mick Jagger owned an original four-rotor Enigma encoding machine which he loaned to the film for historical accuracy in constructing props.

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One of the motivations behind making this movie was the indignation of many British World War 2 veterans (and civilians) over the movie U-571 (2000), in which the capture of the Enigma was shown to be done by American navy officers (despite the fact that the makers of that movie had indicated their movie to be a work of fiction and no accurate portrayal of the events leading to the capture of the Enigma).

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Goofs

In the opening scene in London, a UPS van can be seen, clearly not a 1945 UPS van but a nice new modern one.

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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.

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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.

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Quotes

Tom Jericho: It weighs twenty-six pounds, battery included, and goes anywhere. The Enigma machine - the Germans have thousands of them.

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Claire Romilly: Poor you. I really got under your skin, didn't I?

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Tom Jericho: It's true though, isn't it? The Katyn Massacre?

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