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Enemy at the Gates

starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins
directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792172765
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792172760
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2001
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 2297
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001



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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. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Jospeh Fiennes Rachel Weisz Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R Director: Jean-jacques Annaud

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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



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent
The action is awesome and realistic. The characters fit the story very well. Alot of idiots on here ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An Insightful Movie
In the desperate days of Stalingrad, Communist-Left wing dictator Josef Stalin and his henchmen threw ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Disappointing
The problem with this movie is that historical inaccuracies. If one is to make a movie based upon an ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Romantic Triangle in Battle
This is based on a true story from the Battle of Stalingrad. It tells how a sniper became a hero for publicity ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A microcosm of the gigantic war between the Nazis and Soviets.
The opening scenes capture the realities of war almost as effectively as was done in "Saving Private Ryan." This ... Read More

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