Katyn vs The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.7/10 for Katyn). The Imitation Game is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 2m. Katyn is the older of the two (2007 against 2014). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Katyn posterKatyn2007 VS The Imitation Game posterThe Imitation Game2014
KatynThe Imitation Game
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 8.0/10
Year20072014
Length2h 2m1h 53m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, Thriller, War
Country–United States of America
DirectorAndrzej WajdaMorten Tyldum
Main castDanuta Stenka, Sergey Garmash, Maja Ostaszewska, Paweł Małaszyński, Magdalena CieleckaBenedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard

Synopsis

Katyn

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

The Imitation Game

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

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