Enemy at the Gates movie

Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Robbins book called The War of the Rats. Robbins borrowed elements from William Craigs book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad which describe the events surrounding during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943. The movie follows Soviet sniper Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his German rival, Major Erwin König, as they stalk each other during the Battle of Stalingrad.Historian Anthony Beevor suggests in his book, Stalingrad, that, while Zaitsev was definitely a real person, the story of his duel (dramatized in the film) with König is fictional.

William Craigs novel Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad however, states that although Zaitsev and König fought against each other in combat, the sequence of events in the film is almost entirely fictional. Synopsis Stalingrad, 1942. The German invasion of Russia has reached the city of Stalingrad, reducing the city to rubble as the Soviet and Nazi armies battle for the fate of Russia. Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law), a not very educated peasant from the Urals conscripted into the Red Army, manages to survive both a suicidal charge without a weapon into the front lines of the German attack and the NKVD penalty squad machine gunners shooting survivors who tried to flee. Acquiring a rifle, Zaitsev ? an expert marksman ? manages to kill five German officers in a row with the only five bullets he has, impressing a witnessing political officer, Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). Writing an account of Zaitsevs achievement in the military newspaper, Danilov manages to inspire the broken, morale-sapped people of the Soviet Union to renew their efforts against the German invaders, and Zaitsev becomes a national hero and propaganda icon.The friendship between the two men is to be tested, however, as both have fallen in love with Tanya (Rachel Weisz), a Jewish citizen of the city who, inspired by Zaitsev, has joined the sniper division.

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Enemy at the Gates Cast

• Bob Hoskins
• Clemens Schick
• Ed Harris
• Eva Mattes
• Gabriel Thomson
• Hans Martin Stier
• Ivan Shvedoff
• Joseph Fiennes
• Mario Bandi
• Matthias Habich
• Mikhail Matveyev
• Rachel Weisz
• Ron Perlman
• Sophie Rois