CodebreakerCodebreakerhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/218151Bryn Mawr Film Institute2012-10-10T19:00:002012-10-10T21:00:00
October 10, 7:00PM
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Starring Ed Stoppard (as Alan Turing)
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Admission is Free and open to public
Screening will be followed by Q&A
Alan Turing
Description
From the film's web site (www.turingfilm.com):
This feature length drama-documentary records the brilliance – and the destruction – of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds. Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German Naval Enigma code during World War II saving millions of lives. He was also the visionary scientist who gave birth to the computer age, pioneered artificial intelligence, and was the first to investigate the mathematical underpinnings of the living world. Turing is one of the great original thinkers of the 20th century who foresaw the digital world in which we now live. In the eyes of many scientists today, Turing sits alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin at the table of scientific greats.
Instead of recognition for his genius, Alan Turing was driven to a terrible
despair and early death – by the nation he had done so much to save. Turing
ended up being treated as a common criminal, simply for being homosexual at
a time when it was illegal. In 1952, he was convicted of “gross indecency”
with another man and was forced to undergo so-called ‘organo-therapy’ or
chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide at age 41.
The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Clare Beavan whose credits include Daphne, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, and Imagine: a Love Story. The film’s drama scenes are written by Craig Warner whose credits include Maxwell,
The Fall of the Lehman Brothers, and The Queen’s Sister for Channel 4, which
was nominated for several BAFTA awards. The cast features Ed Stoppard
(Upstairs, Downstairs and Any Human Heart) as Alan Turing and Henry Goodman (The Damned United, Olivier award for Best Actor in 2000 for his role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and in 1993 for Stephen Sondheim‘s musical Assassins) as Turing’s psychiatrist.
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