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Enemy at the Gates
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*Enemy at the Gates* is a 2001 war, drama, and action film directed, written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The cast includes Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, and Bob Hoskins. The story follows a Russian and a German sniper engaged in a cat-and-mouse game during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. Set in the 1940s with a narrative location of Volgograd, the film was produced by Paramount Pictures and released in the United States, France, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
The production features cinematography by Robert Fraisse, editing by Noëlle Boisson, music by James Horner, and costumes by Janty Yates. Filming took place at Babelsberg Studio, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, and Bavaria. The film has a runtime of 131 minutes and was distributed in video on demand format. It received nominations for the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor and Best Actress. Audience ratings include a 7.5 score on IMDb and a 7.416 average on TMDb.
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Film · TMDB
7.4A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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
Themes
- sniper
- hero
- winter
- world war ii
- stalingrad
- based on true story
- nazi officer
- battle
- bombing
- death
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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