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BERLIN • LOSANGELES • MILAN • FOYER • CANNES • TOKYO • LONDON DIARY
John Millar reports from the set of a
true-life World War Two thriller
D ougray Scott, his hair cropped into
an old-fashioned short, back and sides, is dressed in typically 1940s high-waisted cor-
duroys, supported by braces. His white shirt is rolled up at the sleeves and his shoes are a pair of sensible brown brogues.
He walks away from an office where study desks have old-fash- ioned, heavy looking telephones, maps and documents and the para- phernalia of a nation at war.
All that is out of place in the image of World War II that’s being cre- ated on a sound stage at Elstree Studios is the white Styrofoam cup of coffee that the Scots star clutches during a break in the filming of Enigma, the film version of the Robert
Harris’ best-selling novel about how British boffins cracked the Nazis’ secret code. Scott, fresh from the rigours of playing the loathsome vil-
ENIGMA
ENIGMA
Photos main: Kate Winslet; inset: Michael Apted, First AD Nick Heckstall-Smith and DP Seamus McGarvey