Enemy at the Gates 2001

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 130 min

genre: drama

theme: war

director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Score: 8 / 10

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 includes a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.

Plot

Vasily Zaitsev is a soldier in the Red Army and is sent to the front line of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. Forced into a suicidal charge without a rifle, he hides while a tank shell incapacitates a car. The occupant, Commissar Danilov, hides among numerous bodies, coincidentally next to Vasily, who uses his exceptional marksmanship to kill the German soldiers nearby.

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More details

author	Alain Godard Jean-Jacques Annaud
contentLocation	Volgograd
director	Jean-Jacques Annaud
editor	Humphrey Dixon
events	Battle of Stalingrad World War II
genre	drama romance
keywords	116th infantry division commissar dog tags double agent erwin könig field hospital force german german forces german language german soldier kill loot nikita khrushchev pass political commissar in the soviet union publish red army shoot sniper soviet propaganda tania chernova think vasily zaitsev wait war merit cross wound
musicBy	James Horner
nomination	European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress
producer	Jean-Jacques Annaud
productionCompany	Mandalay Pictures
publisher	Constantin Film Paramount Pictures Pathé Distribution Screen International Summit Entertainment
recordedAt	Babelsberg Studio Bavaria Krampnitz Rüdersdorf bei Berlin
theme	epic war