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Enemy at the Gates |  | Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Actors: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  396 reviews
Sales Rank: 2073
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Unknown), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 097363386247
ISBN: 0792172760
UPC: 097363386247
EAN: 9780792172765
ASIN: B00003CXRA
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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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
Product Description
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF WORLD WAR II RUSSIAN HERO VASSILI ZAITSEV, WHOSE FAME THRUST HIM INTO A PERSONAL WAR WITH THE NAZIS' BEST SHARPSHOOTER.
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 ENEMY AT THE GATES March 4, 2010
Alvaro Gonima (COLOMBIA S. A.)
EXRAORDINARIA PELICULA DE GUERRA, CON UN GRAN GUION UNA ESTUPENDA ACTUACION DE JUDE LAW
Fast Shipping, Product arrived as described February 28, 2010
Nightowl
The DVD arrived in good time, and the quality of the product was just as described. It was in good condition. I was very satisfied with this purchase.
 Historical Fiction February 11, 2010
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
I very much enjoyed this movie, despite the perhaps inevitable Hollywood hype. To be certain, the screen play is based on a the Soviet rendition of a supposed sniper duel in besieged Stalingrad. Yes, there were no doubt hundreds of sniper duels in Stalingrad, but this one wasn't one of them.
According to Soviet propaganda, the Germans send their greatest sniper, Koenig, to remove the deadly Zaitsev from the surface of the earth. At the moment of truth, the virtually invisible Koenig shoots Zaitsev's spotter when the spotter foolishly points out Koenig's position under a sheet of tin. Zaitsev, seeing the muzzle flash and/or dust disturbed by the muzzle gases, fires at Koenig and kills him. Note: Even the Soviet account mentions no murdered child.
Zaitsev was, in fact, an accomplished sniper. The problem is that the character, Koenig, who was supposedly the primary instructor of a German sniper school, has never been identified. In fact, there was no Koenig ['King' in German]. Therefore the story was simply a Soviet propaganda ploy to make the unlikely point, that Soviet snipers, the Soviet military, and the Soviet system, was superior.
Clearly, no reasonable military system would send one of their primary instructors into the death trap of Stalingrad. There were plenty of entirely competent marksmen there, already. On the other hand, I read the account of a Russian female sniper who killed a German sniper and recovered his log book of kills. She claimed that this German had logged over 500 Russian snipers killed. Who was the better sniper? The Russian woman who killed the German sniper or the German sniper who was successful over 500 times in counter-sniper combat?
Me? I'm not so certain. The Soviets would have certainly promoted their lady sniper as the 'best'. The German, however, must have previously survived far more than 500 duels with his life as the price. Not remarkably he finally paid it.
Great movie but.. November 13, 2009
R. Reinert (United States)
I hope they remake this someday and cut the love story out and tighten the script a notch. Still as it is, has great replay potential!
a great movie! Dont listen to 5- stars! November 13, 2009
John Brookes (Silicon Valley)
The battle of Stalingrad is the most epic battle ever, and an accurate re-enactment is an education of inestimable value! How can these vermin of Stalingrad give it less than 5 stars I doin't know! (scratch scratch) Evidently they think of it as "entertainment." (scratch) The amazing moral, personal, and social insensitivity of modern Americans is, to me, quite amazing! Anyway, this film displays the incredible personal and moral courage of Russian soldiers fighting like rats in the ruins of Stalingrad. (scratch scratch) Stalin threw soldiers against the Germans like lambs to the slaughter - The Russian army had machine guns - to kill their own who ran from the suicidal charges. The opening scene on the Volga is worth the whole film. We should be so lucky if we had more films portraying the "rats in the ruins" of similar battles. (scratch) A film about the Russian invasion of Germany would be an amazing film, as would the invasion and bombing of Japan in WW2. (scratch)
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