This film tells the story of the fascinating life of Alan Turing, the British scientist who managed to invent the machine that cracked German codes and thus was able to put an end to the war. In the movie the machine was named “Christopher,” supposedly inspired by Turing’s teenage love for his partner Christopher Morcom, but this could not be further from the truth. The real-life name of the machine was “The Bomb.”

As for Christopher, there is no evidence that he shared Turing’s love, although they did share a very close friendship and his demise deeply affected the scientist. Another fact that is not mentioned in the film is that Turing did not build the machine alone, but had the help of mathematician Gordon Welchman.

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