Enemy at the Gates
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"Enemy at the Gates" is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud that dramatizes a historical conflict during World War II. The film follows a Russian sniper and a German officer as adversaries in a deadly contest during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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7.4A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Released: 2001-02-28131 minDir: Jean-Jacques AnnaudWar, History
Cast
- Jude Law as Vassili Zaitsev
- Joseph Fiennes as Commisar Danilov
- Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova
- Ed Harris as Major König
- Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev
- Ron Perlman as Koulikov
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- 2001
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Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. It depicts a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
The cast includes Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich.