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.
The Imitation Game (2014)
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Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Keira Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance
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Joan Clarke: Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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?
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).