ENIGMA - John Barry (Edit-with-ending)

Enigma (2001) is a Second World War romantic thriller directed by Michael Apted.
The story takes place in March 1943 with the war at its height and is loosely based on actual events. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, a top secret site outside London where all varieties of nerds, Bolsheviks, and math whizzes work at breaking down German communications. They have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have increased the security of key-changing of their Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of naval vital signals intelligence. This could spell disaster in the critical Battle of the Atlantic, on whose outcome Britain's survival depends. The British cryptanalysts have cracked the "shark" cipher before, and they need to do it again in order to keep track of U-boat locations and steer shipping convoys out of their way.
The plot follows the fictional character of the fragile but brilliant working class mathematician Tom Jericho (played by Dougray Scott). He is returned to Bletchley Park from Cambridge to assist with the crisis after a period of recuperation bought on by overwork earlier in the war combined with an unhappy love affair, which led to him having a nervous breakdown. Jericho immediately tries to see his lover again and finds she has mysteriously disappeared. He enlists the help of Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet) to follow the trail of clues and learn what has happened to her. Mr. Jericho and Miss Wallace, as they coldly call each other, repeatedly break the rules of the Bletchley Park establishment and the law as their hunt gets more intense. Jericho is closely watched by MI5 agent Wigram (Jeremy Northam), who plays cat and mouse with him throughout the film. Jericho is tolerated at the Park, despite his transgressions, because of the brilliant plan he invents for uncovering the new key. The plan may unfortunately mean sacrificing at least one Allied convoy to the U-boats.

Trivia: Mick Jagger owned an original four-rotor Enigma encoding machine which he loaned to the film for historical accuracy in constructing props.
Jagger (producer) also appears sitting at a dinner table at the dance.
When he's tapping on the desk with a pencil, Tom (Scott) is spelling out "Claire" (his lover) in Morse code.

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[johnofett]

john barry must be one of thee best composers...love every theme hes done andnot to mention the classic production on the bond themes like view to a kill and the living daylights from two of my favourite bands of the 80s.....nice video

[Soundtrackcollector]

@johnofett ...totally agree.

Thanks again.

[Hunternet7]

They did not look like them.. sorry?

[Soundtrackcollector]

@Hunternet7 Tom Jericho and Hester Wallace?

[leandro00000000007]

John Barry the best composer in the world!

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER!

[Soundtrackcollector]

@leandro00000000007 Gracias!

[Amarventris]

ommm beautiful musssssssssic. Great vid- it struck me that ww2 for brits they had a lot of the "war" in their midst, suspicion, codes. I am american and Iraq is far far away.

[aTnavarrow]

This is sooooooooooooooooooo brilliant ~ so is John Barry he lived where I went to school and I can feel a lot of the North in this soundtrack, his last (

Movie is brilliant !

[ScrumptiousStrat]

One correction to Soundtrackcollector's write up, above, of the film: he says that "nerds, Bolsheviks and math whizzes" werre employed at Bletchley Park during the war. The 3rd description is correct; the 1st is a matter of opinion but the only person who came close to being a Bolshevik was the traitor John Cairncross who was passing intelligence to the Russians - albeit very low-level stuff and of no real consequence.

The film story is fiction but all the technical bits are correct.

[barryfanatic]

Such a pity that this was his last soundtrack, he captures the atmosphetre and the time of the films setting to a tee, a brilliant soundtrack from a brilliant composer.

[dirkbogarde44]

The greatest film composer ever maybe. Hard to replace. 

[georgemcquade]

There is only one John Barry. I believe he must have experienced a lost very deeplove to be able to express such pure beauty and depth in his music which has always touched my soul like no toher composer. God bless you John

[TitchTV]

I still love this very much. Been out this weekend close to home in the Dales. Epic views make me think of Epic music........ ;-)

[Russell230870]

although Barrys last score for a film it still oozes class even though it's far from his best work, Barry's work after scoring The Specialist in 1995 took a bit of a dive in terms of quality but this is still 100 times better than most scores you hear today.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@ScrumptiousStrat: It is indeed horrifying to consider the prospects of a German atomic weapon mated to their V-2 (or planned V-3) rockets... be thankful the Norwegian SOE commandos, the "Heroes of Telemark," blew up the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant, and thereby crippled the Nazi atomic research program. "Enigma," despite being fictional (based on the Robert Harris novel), gave long-overdue credit to the codebreakers of Bletchley, who did so much to win the war. An under-rated film IMHO...