Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates
by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Enemy at the Gates
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Actor: Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Brand: FIENNES,JOSEPH
Producer: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writer: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producer: Alain Godard
Writer: Alain Godard
Producer: Alisa Tager
Producer: John D. Schofield
Producer: J?rg Reichl
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

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Movie Review: excellent!!! will buy from again!! The best!
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent movie! Vassilly is a true hero, and this is the finest war movie I have ever seen.

Summary of Enemy at the Gates

Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev becomes a hero fighting the Nazis during the battle of Stalingrad, and comes face to face with Major Konig, a Nazi sniper bent on stopping him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 29-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD
Like Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates opens with a pivotal event of World War II--the German invasion of Stalingrad--re-created in epic scale, as ill-trained Russian soldiers face German attack or punitive execution if they flee from the enemy's advance. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud captures this madness with urgent authenticity, creating a massive context for a more intimate battle waged amid the city's ruins. Embellished from its basis in fact, the story shifts to an intense cat-and-mouse game between a Russian shepherd raised to iconic fame and a German marksman whose skill is unmatched in its lethal precision. Vassily Zaitzev (Jude Law) has been sniping Nazis one bullet at a time, while the German Major Konig (Ed Harris) has been assigned to kill Vassily and spare Hitler from further embarrassment.

There's love in war as Vassily connects with a woman soldier (Rachel Weisz), but she is also loved by Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), the Soviet officer who promotes his friend Vassily as Russia's much-needed hero. This romantic rivalry lends marginal interest to the central plot, but it's not enough to make this a classic war film. Instead it's a taut, well-made suspense thriller isolated within an epic battle, and although Annaud and cowriter Alain Godard (drawing from William Craig's book and David L. Robbins's novel The War of the Rats) fail to connect the parallel plots with any lasting impact, the production is never less than impressive. Highly conventional but handled with intelligence and superior craftsmanship, this is warfare as strategic entertainment, without compromising warfare as a manmade hell on Earth. --Jeff Shannon

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