Enigma is a 2001 movie set in World War II. It stars Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet and is based on a novel of the same title by Robert Harris.
Plot
With the war at its height, the cryptologists at Bletchley Park, England, have a problem — the Germans have improved the security of their Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in naval signals intelligence; this could spell disaster in the critical Battle of the Atlantic, on whose outcome (as Winston Churchill acknowledged) Britain's very survival depends. The cryptologists have cracked the cipher before, they need to do it again. There is also a hint of treachery — is there a spy at Bletchley Park?
Criticism
The movie, and by association the book, have attracted criticism for their portrayal of the Polish role in Enigma decryption. In the movie, the traitor turns out to be Polish, while only passing mention is made of the seminal contributions of Polish cryptologists to Allied Enigma-decryption efforts. In fact, a traitor was active at Bletchley Park, passing crucial secrets to the Soviet Union: John Cairncross, who was British.
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