Director : Jean-Jacques Annaud
Release Date : 16 March 2001 (USA)
Genre : Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Cast : Jude Law as Vassili Zaitsev, Ed Harris as Major König, Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova, Joseph Fiennes as Commisar Danilov, Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev, Ron Perlman as Koulikov, Eva Mattes as Mother Filipov, Gabriel Thomson as Sacha Filipov (as Gabriel Marshall-Thomson), Matthias Habich as General Paulus, Sophie Rois as Ludmilla, Ivan Shvedoff as Volodya, Mario Bandi as Anton, Hans Martin Stier as Red Army General, Clemens Schick as German NCO (as Clemans Schick), Mikhail Matveyev as Grandfather (as Mikhail Matveev)
Plot : Two Russian in addition to German snipers play around a tourney of cat-and-mouse for the duration of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Run Time : 131 min
Country : USA | Germany | UK | Ireland
MPAA : Rated R for strong graphic war violence and some sexuality.
Language : English | German | Russian
Filming Locations : Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Company : Paramount Pictures
Trivia : The designation of the motion picture is accepted fancy the textbook “Enemy at the Gate: The Battle since Stalingrad” (1973) by William Craig, which as well archive the real-life struggle attainments of Vasilli Zaitsev.
Goofs : Miscellaneous: On the DVD cover, the Moison-Nagant Russian Rifle has a departed hand bolt action. This is under no circumstances interpreted inside any modification of this rifle. All elemental defense force bolt manner Moison-Nagant rifles (M91, M91/30, M38, M44 etc.) are true hand bolt actions.
Tag Lines : Some Men Are Born To Be Heroes.
A single bullet can change history.
A hero never chooses his destiny. His destiny chooses him.
A battle between two nations became a conflict between two men.
Helden wählen ihr Schicksal nie selbst, das Schicksal wählt sie! [German]
Plot Summary : During the WWII drive of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), plus a German (Harris), are locked inside a drive of wills plus marksmenship, spilt second the Russian is magnified to the status of hero by a dogmatic official (Fiennes).
In World War II, the arise of Stalingrad will connote the fall apart of the entire country. The Germans as at any rate as Russians are brawling excess of every block, giving up solitary ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, capturing one another out solitary by one, so disturbing the morale of the German troops. The partisan officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to crumple his countrymen various hope. But Vassili sooner or later materialization to imagine that he might not live conscious to the likelihoods on him. He as at any rate as Danilov go to pieces affection as well as the similar girl, Tanya, a lady soldier. From Germany comes the become knowledgeable at sniper König to situate an finish to the magnificent knowledgeable Russian sniper.
In the coldness of 1942, the German also Russian Armies meet up inside the massive Battle of the Stalingrad, one in all the more or less ferocious engagements of the Second World War. Enter into this dread a juvenile Russian soldier, in the past a peasant boy as well as a mystifying skill to sharpshoot a rifle indulge in distant distances. The Russian sniper rapidly gains quality behind killing a chronicle figure of German officers having the Germans to yield their own sniper expert: a battle weathered Major who until the finish of time pulls off his undertaking no question no matter what the cost. With the Battle of Stalingrad raging regarding them, these two kinsfolk must nowadays disagreement each other.
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