Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Coming Out at 14 March 2001 in theaters.
Drama, History, War
Enemy at the Gates is war film written and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and 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 and 1943. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film’s main character is a fictionalized version of sniper Vasily Zaytsev, a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II.[6] It includes a snipers’ duel between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
The cast includes Jude Law as Zaytsev, Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova, and Ed Harris as König, with Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich.
In 1942, following the invasion of the Soviet Union the year before, Vasily Zaitsev, a shepherd from the Ural Mountains who is now a soldier in the Red Army, finds himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Forced into a suicidal charge by barrier troops against the invading Germans, he uses impressive marksmanship skills, which had been taught to him at a young age by his grandfather, to save himself and commissar Danilov.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Godard
Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes
Cast:
| Jude Law | … | Vassili |
| Ed Harris | … | Major König |
| Rachel Weisz | … | Tania Chernova |
| Joseph Fiennes | … | Commisar Danilov |
| Bob Hoskins | … | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Ron Perlman | … | Koulikov |
| Eva Mattes | … | Mother Filipov |
| Gabriel Thomson | … | Sacha Filipov |
| Matthias Habich | … | General Paulus |
| Sophie Rois | … | Ludmilla |
| Ivan Shvedoff | … | Volodya |
| Mario Bandi | … | Anton |
| Hans Martin Stier | … | Red Army General |
| Clemens Schick | … | German NCO |
| Mikhail Matveev | … | Grandfather |
| Alexander Schwan | … | Young Vassili Zaitsev |
| Lenn Kudrjawizki | … | Comrade in Train |
| Hendrik Arnst | … | Fat Colonel |
| Claudius Freyer | … | Aide de Camp |
| Dietmar Nieder | … | Blond Captain |
| Bernd Lambrecht | … | Captain with Lighter |
| Jim Dowdall | … | Stubborn Feldwebel |
| Maxim Kovalevski | … | Politruk / Sniper |
| Gennadi Vengerov | … | Russian NCO |
| Dan van Husen | … | Political Officer |
| Peter Silbereisen | … | Sweating Officer |
| Markus Majowski | … | Stammering Officer |
| Robert Stadlober | … | Spotter |
| Gotthard Lange | … | Corpse Robber |
| Anna Böttcher | … | Female Russian Typist |
| Holger Handtke | … | Paulus’ Aide de Camp |
| Marc Bischoff | … | Stealing Photographer |
| Mark Zak | … | Russian Captain at Headquarters |
| Thomas Petruo | … | Russian Lieutenant |
| Dmitri Alexandrov | … | Comrade in Shelter |
| David Pagel | … | Pravda Interviewer |
| Galina Dobberstein | … | Izvestiya Interviewer |
| Igor Rozinsky | … | Krasnaya Zvezda Interviewer |
| Sergei Tokarev | … | Russian Reporter |
| Tom Wlaschiha | … | Soldier |
| Marischka Schubarth | … | Woman Plucking Eyebrows |
| Natalya Bondar | … | Woman Officer |
| Dana Cebulla | … | Athletic Female Sniper |
| Piotr Papierz | … | Politruk |
| Jarek Wozniak | … | Politruk |
| Genia Makarov | … | Politruk |
| Werner Daehn | … | Politruk |
| Birol Ünel | … | Politruk |
| Grigori Kofmann | … | Politruk |
| Aleksei Nesterov | … | Politruk |
| Vladimir Vilanov | … | Politruk |
| Aleksei Volodin | … | Junior Politruk |
| Gennadi Tselbyansky | … | Senior Politruk |
| Andrej Kaminsky | … | Russian Trench Officer |
| Michael Schenk | … | Russian Officer |
| Jury Cooper | … | Russian NCO |
| Manfred Witt | … | Russian NCO |
| Arslan Kodirov | … | Chechen Sniper / Sniper / Russian Officer |
| Axel Neumann | … | Gaunt German Prisoner |
| Morin Smole | … | Sniper |
| Inna Samain | … | Sniper |
| Keta Burowa | … | Female Russian Radio Operator |
| Toby Cockerell | … | Russian Sharpshooter |
| Jürgen G.H. Hoppmann | … | Russian railroad worker / Polish railroad worker |
| Kay Hunsicker | … | Soldier |
| Eddy Joseph | … | Voice on Tannoy (voice) |
| Martin Glyn Murray | … | Narrator (voice) |
| Valentin Platareanu | … | General Schmidt |
| Thomas Rösicke | … | Russian Guard |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia