I Betrayed Hitler (2016)

6.7/10 52 min History Documentary War TV Movie

Overview

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.

Cast

Damien Boisseau

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

Paul Reynaud

Self (archive footage)

Maurice Gamelin

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Pivot

Self (archive footage)

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