THE IMITATION GAME at Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

October 2014

To celebrate the release of THE IMITATION GAME in UK cinemas on 14 November, Bletchley Park will open a major new exhibition, taking visitors behind the scenes of the highly anticipated movie. The exhibition will open on Tuesday 4 November with an exclusive preview screening of the film for a select audience at Bletchley Park. The same evening, this vibrant heritage attraction will preview a major new exhibition all about the making of the film, in the very room where the bar scenes were filmed.

Sarah Kay, Bletchley Park’s Digitisation and Exhibitions Officer, says “THE IMITATION GAME at Bletchley Park Exhibition is an opportunity to not only provide our existing audiences the chance to see some of the film’s set dressing and some of the fantastic objects and documents created by the film’s art department. It is also an opportunity for us to reach new audiences of film fans who otherwise may not be familiar with the secret wartime work of Alan Turing and the thousands of other heroes who undertook arguably the most important work of the their lives.

“The making of the film will send the history of Bletchley Park worldwide with such incredibly impressive and intense performances by some of Britain's most elite actors. Bletchley Park is incredibly proud of what the filmmakers and actors were able to achieve.”

During the filming we spoke to the producer Teddy Schwarzman & the screenplay writer Graham Moore. We will bring you the full interview & many more Exclusives in future episodes of The Bletchley Park Podcast.

Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal

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0:00.0	What did you do during the war?
0:02.0	I worked in a radio factory.
0:04.0	What did you really do during the war?
0:07.0	Are you paying attention?
0:10.0	If you speak a word of what I'm about to show you, you will be executed.
0:17.0	It's beautiful.
0:20.0	It's the greatest encryption device in history.
0:22.6	The Germans use it for all major communications.
0:25.6	Everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.
0:28.6	Let me try and we'll know for sure.
0:30.6	Mr. Turing, do you know how many have died because of Enigma?
0:34.6	No, I don't.
0:36.6	Three.
0:39.8	While we've been having this conversation.
0:45.5	What's it like having been here actually at Bletchley Park where all this happened,
0:46.6	filming some of the scenes?
0:47.9	Oh, it's a dream.
0:56.8	I mean, I think it's so nice to have the opportunity to be here at Bletchley where everything happened. And for us, it was very important as American writer, American producers, a Norwegian director, to both staff
1:04.6	our entire crew and our cast with people from the UK, and to really do massive amounts of diligence
1:12.3	in both our production design, our costume design, our locations.
1:17.7	And there's no better location that we can think of than being at Bletchley to shoot
1:21.9	the imitation game.
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