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Enigma R Historical / Thriller Released: 17-1-2003 Director: Michael Apted Cast: Dougray Scott (Tom Jericho), Saffron Burrows (Claire Romilly), Kate Winslet (Hester Wallace), Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Corin Redgrave

¡@¡@Those who get their history lessons from movies will already be familiar with the name "Enigma". It was popularized by the movie "U-571", in which a group of American sailors seize a Nazi submarine, and with it an Enigma code machine. Once the Allies had the machine, they struggled to break the codes it contained and decipher Nazi messages.

¡@¡@This movie, "Enigma", deals with the code-breaking work done at Bletchley Park, north of London. Summoned back from a stress-induced leave, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is the hero assigned the job of cracking the code. ¡@¡@In the movie there is more of an emphasis on the code breakers, as opposed to code breaking. When you consider the perilous circumstances and outcomes of the work being done in the movie, the intensity and suspense rises to a feverish level.

¡@¡@Of course, love gets in the way. Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows) was the cause of Jericho's previous breakdown and now she is once again invading every breath of his work. Romilly is sexy, dangerous, sly and elusive. To offset Romilly, Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet) is the other woman in Jericho's life. Jericho and Hester have their suspicions about Claire, who might be passing secrets to the Germans.

¡@¡@What all this amounts to is an intriguing set of relationships that provide an excellent backdrop for a movie. The acting is very credible, the setting exciting and romantic. How it all plays out is up to you to find out.

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