Question: When they finally break the code, Turing reads the decrypted message. Wouldn't it have been in German, which he earlier in the film admitted he did not read?
The Imitation Game (2014)
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Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Keira Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance
Factual error: The detective played by Rory Kinnear is shown in 1951 typing a request for Alan Turing's military records. He changes a name with correcting fluid - unknown in the UK in 1951.
Joan Clarke: Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
Answer: It is in German; you can see it as it's being written down. Afterwards, Turing doesn't read it out; Cairncross hands it to Alexander, who reads it aloud (in English).