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

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)

Trailer

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