Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- Directed by
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Genre
- drama film, action film, war film, romance film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, France, United States
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 4,084 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
During the Battle of Stalingrad, a Soviet sniper named Vasily Zaitsev becomes a symbol of resistance. A German sniper is sent to hunt him down, leading to a cat-and-mouse duel between the two men.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Siberian Sniper (2021)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.