Codebreaker Page #2

Synopsis: The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. Each therapy session in this drama documentary is based on real events. The conversations between Turing and Greenbaum explore the pivotal moments in his controversial life and examine the pressures that may have contributed to his early death. The film also includes the testimony of people who actually knew and remember Turing. Plus, this film features interviews with contemporary experts from the world of technology and high science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. These contributors bring Turing's exciting impact up to the present day, explaining why, in many ways, modern technology has only just begun to explore the potential of Turing's ideas.
Director(s): Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey
Production: TODpix
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
62 min
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He would make fun of me

for my sloppy handwriting

for mistakes I made...

the careless errors.

He made me want

to improve my standards.

He was an example.

He was a friend.

I didn't care about his example.

What did you care about?

I cared about what I was in his eyes.

More so, in a sense,

than what I was in my own.

Morcom's influence on Turing

was absolutely enormous.

His importance was very,

very profound and very deep

both intellectually and emotionally.

Christopher was a great scientist with

tremendous gifts and tremendous curiosity

curiosity to match Turing's.

So they would often stargaze together.

They were both very

interested in astronomy.

They were more than just pals.

There was a great intimacy between them

but a very innocent... it was

entirely innocent of sexuality.

I think if you find a person like that

and I don't think

everybody does find one

in fact I think it's terribly rare

then all you thought before

all your plans for yourself,

you realise they were just filling a gap.

It was just something for you to do

while you were waiting for this person

and everything you want to be

is something for him, not yourself.

There is a drawback, however.

Finding such a person makes

everybody else appear so ordinary

and if anything happens to him

you've got nothing left

but to return to the ordinary world

and a kind of isolation

that never existed before.

At the beginning of December 1929

Chris and Alan went together up to Cambridge

for the scholarship examinations.

And at that time, they were both hoping that

they would succeed and obtain scholarships

and go on to study together at Cambridge.

It wasn't known, of course,

it couldn't be known

to Alan or to Chris

that shortly afterwards,

Alan was to lose his best friend.

Chris died on the 13th of February 1930.

One friend put it quite accurately

when they said, 'poor old Turing

was absolutely bowled over'.

Chris had contracted

tuberculosis as a child.

He suffered from poor health

all his life but he never complained.

He was very private that way.

When I heard he was dead

the world threatened

suddenly to be so different.

I found ways of dragging him around

with me to ease the transition.

I wrote to his mother

a number of times.

I made no secret of

the power of my feelings.

I told her I absolutely worshipped

the ground on which he walked

and she, being his mother,

found no reason to quibble with this.

We shared in the loss of him.

I asked her for a snapshot

and she gave me one.

I have it here.

See?

This is a letter from Alan to

my grandmother, Chris's mother

dated the 20th of February 1930.

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Craig Warner

Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. His play Strangers on a Train, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013–14, and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and produced by Barbara Broccoli. He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers , for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which gained Warner a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing. Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening. Warner received a BA in Philosophy from King's College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He was born in Los Angeles. more…

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