Enigma [videorecording] / Manhattan Pictures International ; Intermedia ; Senator Film präsentiert ; Manhattan Pictures International and Intermedia Films and Senator Entertainment present in association with MeesPierson Film CV, a Jagged Films/Broadway Video production ; directed by Michael Apted ; screenplay by Tom Stoppard ; produced by Lorne Michaels and Mick Jagger.
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FilmPublisher number: 00749 | Columbia Tristar Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2003.Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1404929479
- 9781404929470
- Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editor, Rick Shaine ; music composer, John Barry ; costume designer, Shirley Russell ; production designer, John Beard.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Enigma | Available | 33111008306421 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The true story of a major breakthrough in intelligence technology created during World War II provides the backdrop for this blend of mystery, romance, and espionage, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a gifted mathematician who is working with the British government on the development and maintenance of the Enigma machine, an electronic device that allows Allied intelligence agents to decode scrambled messages sent by Germany military officers. But the emotionally fragile Jericho is buckling under both the pressure of his work and the collapse of his relationship with Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows), a co-worker with whom he's fallen deeply in love. After suffering a minor breakdown, Jericho is sent on a leave of absence, but when he returns to work, a crisis awaits: it seems the Germans have instituted a new code that the Enigma is not yet able to crack, and Jericho is needed to help unravel Axis communiqués before an important convoy of troops and materiel sets sail. It is also suspected that a German undercover agent has infiltrated the Enigma project, and Wigram (Jeremy Northam) is determined to ferret them out. In the midst of all this, Jericho receives troubling news that Claire has gone missing -- and that a file of German messages waiting to be decoded was found at her home. As Jericho works against the clock to crack the new German code, he forms an initially uneasy alliance with Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet), Claire's roommate and a fellow member of the Enigma project, as they try to discover Claire's whereabouts. Enigma was co-produced by Mick Jagger, who has a keen interest in the history of the real-life Enigma project, and even owns one of the original Enigma decoding machines. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the novel by Robert Harris.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: listed on container.
Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editor, Rick Shaine ; music composer, John Barry ; costume designer, Shirley Russell ; production designer, John Beard.
Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Saffron Burrows, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hollander, Corin Redgrave.
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intelligence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment--crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD, dual layer, Dolby digital, anamorphic widescreen video (2.35:1).
In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.