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Enemy at the Gates

2001 · Film · 131 min

  • War
  • History

Plot

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

About Enemy at the Gates

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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Cast

  • Jude LawVassili Zaitsev
  • Joseph FiennesCommisar Danilov
  • Rachel WeiszTania Chernova
  • Ed HarrisMajor König
  • Bob HoskinsNikita Khrushchev
  • Ron PerlmanKoulikov
  • Eva MattesMother Filipov
  • Gabriel ThomsonSacha Filipov
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