CLIP FILM THE IMITATION GAME : USA/UK 2014, Black Bear Pictures PRODUCTION : Morten Tyldum DIRECTOR : Benedict Cumberbatch (Alan Turing), Keira Knightley (Joan Clarke), Charles Dance (Commander Alastair Denniston), Matthew Goode (Hugh Alexander). CAST SYNOPSIS In 1951, the police investigate the mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent at his home. During his interrogation, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park, which was the main center where the Allied code-breaking work was done during the Second World War. When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, Turing traveled to Bletchley Park. Under the direction of Commander Alastair Denniston, he joined the cryptography team of Hugh Alexander, who were trying to the Enigma machine, which the Nazis used to send coded messages. Turing was difficult to work with and considered his colleagues inferior; he worked alone to design a machine to decipher Enigma messages. After Commander Denniston refused to the construction of the machine, Turing wrote to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who put Turing of the team and funded the machine. Turing placed a difficult crossword in newspapers to find people to work in the team; a Cambridge graduate, Joan Clarke, passed Turing’s tests and joined the team, the only woman among a group of men. Turing’s machine, which he named Christopher, was constructed but could not crack the Enigma code quickly enough. Denniston ordered it to be destroyed and Turing fired, but the other cryptographers said they would leave if Turing went. After a conversation with a female clerk about messages she received from the same German machine, Turing realized that Enigma always opened its first message with a standard text and that he could program his machine to decode it. The machine, then, quickly decoded a message about an upcoming attack. Turing realized that if they suddenly attacked the , the Germans would understand Enigma was compromised and change the machinery. Therefore, Turing created a statistical model to indicate which warnings to send to avoid discovery. This helped the Allies win the war. After being accused of for his homosexuality in 1952, Turing is condemned to chemical castration through hormonal therapy, which causes him physical and mental deterioration. The epilogue reveals that Turing committed suicide on June 7, 1954, a few months before his 42 birthday. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II Turing a posthumous Royal , honoring his work which led to the development of the modern computer. break-in decrypt fund in charge overhearing U-boats indecency nd granted pardon BEFORE WATCHING 6. Read the synopsis and complete the table with the correct event for each year. GLOSSARY : : : : : : : : : break-in intrusione to decrypt decifrare to fund finanziare to grant concedere in charge of responsabile di indecency oscenità to overhear origliare pardon grazia U-boat sommergibile