A release date has been announced on the eagerly anticipated British thriller, Enigma. Based on the international best-selling novel by Robert Harris, ‘Enigma' stars the luminous Kate Winslet (‘Titanic’), Dougray Scott (‘Mission Impossible 2’), Jeremy Northam (‘Emma’) and Saffron Burrows (‘Timecode’) and will be released in the UK on September 28.

Steeped in the atmosphere of wartime England, ‘Enigma’ delves into the mystery of codes and code breaking. It also explores love and betrayal set inside the birthplace of the computer age and has much contemporary relevance in today’s world of the internet and computer hacks.

‘Enigma’ has been directed by Michael Apted and produced by Mick Jagger’s Jagged Films and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Films. Variety magazine have already described ‘Enigma’ as, "an intelligent, involving and intricately plotted thriller…Michael Apted demonstrates his sure hand at crafting smartly suspenseful entertainment. Screen International adds that the film is "a compelling, sumptuously-made romantic thriller…quintessentially noir tale of love, obsession and betrayal."

Adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard, ‘Enigma’ will be distributed by Buena Vista International (UK) Ltd.

Source: BFG (The British Film Group)

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