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The Imitation Game - Official Trailer - The Weinstein Company_ by [Elizabeth Barber](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Sep 15, 2014 6:53 AM UTC by [Elizabeth Barber](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Sep 15, 2014 6:53 AM UTC _The Imitation Game_, a World War II drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a cryptologist who helps the British score a huge intelligence coup against the Nazis, won the 2014 Grolsch [People’s Choice Award](http://d12gbu3zt5gvms.cloudfront.net/docs/nZGEyY%5FFestival%5FAwards%5F2014%5F8420993%5F1410716778.pdf) at the Toronto International Film Festival. The People’s Choice Award is the festival’s most prestigious prize and considered a bellwether for Oscar wins. Morten Tyldum’s film — set for release on Nov. 21 — casts _Sherlock_ star Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the computer genius who cracked the German Enigma code — a massive boost for the Allied war effort. Unfortunately, an ungrateful government prosecuted Turing in 1952 for being gay and revoked his security clearance. (Homosexuality was not decriminalized in the U.K. until 1967.) Turing committed suicide in 1954. Keira Knightley co-stars in the film as a code breaker and Turing’s jilted fiancée. Three of the past six People’s Choice Award winners at the Toronto Film Festival have gone on to win the [Best Picture Oscar](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2014/09/14/tiff%5Fthe%5Fimitation%5Fgame%5Fwins%5Ftop%5Fprize.html) (_Slumdog Millionaire_, _12 Years a Slave_ and _The King’s Speech_), the Toronto _Star_ reports. Meanwhile, the People’s Choice prize in the documentary category went to Hajooj Kuka’s _Beats of the Antonov_, about Sudanese refugees struggling not just to survive but also to preserve their traditions. The Midnight Madness Award, for films in the action, shock, horror and fantasy genres, went to Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s _What We Do in the Shadows_, a comic film about three New Zealand vampires sharing a flat. The 11-day festival wrapped up on Sunday, after screening 392 films from 79 countries. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] This war, we're not winning it. If you speak a word of what I'm about to show you, you will be executed for high treason. It's beautiful. It's the greatest encryption device in history and the Germans use it for all communication. Everyone thinks enigma is unbreakable. Let me try and we'll know for sure. Mr. Cheering do you know how many died because of it? I don't. Three, while we've been having this conversation. Gentlemen meet. Mister Turing. We need to work together then. I'm afraid these men would only slow me down. Popular at school were you? We're short on staff. We get more staff then. You have six minutes to complete the task. Is it even possible. No. Takes me eight. Five minutes and 34 seconds. You said to do it in under six. What is it that we're really doing? We're going to break an unbreakable Nazi code and win the war. Oh. In order to pull off this irascible genius routine, one actually has to be a genius. I'm designing a machine that will allow us to break every message, every day, instantly. You're going to need all the help you can get. And they are not going to help you if they do not like you. Have you decrypted a single German message? You will never understand the importance of what I am creating here. Our patience has expired. No! If you fire Allen. Well then you'll have to fire me. Me too. and me. It better bloody work. Allen you do not have to do this alone. What are you doing? What, what, what's going on? The Navy thinks that one of us is a Soviet spy. You've got more secrets than the best of them. What if I don't fancy her in that way? You can't tell anyone though. It's illegal. [ MUSIC ] I'm just a mathematician. Sometimes it is the people who now when it matters anything out who do the things that no one can imagine. 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