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Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, 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 1942–1943. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper…
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Image The impressive war film "Enemy at the Gates", directed in 2001 by veteran filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud, marked a turning point in its genre. Starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes in top form, it tells the story of the historical confrontation between the Russian snipers Vasily Zaitsev and the German Konig during the battle of Stalingrad. What surprised me most was the meticulous and realistic reconstruc…More
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Eastern Front was the most important theatre of Second World War. Despite unimaginable levels of carnage and destruction and despite being the place where the outcome of the conflict was actually decided, it was all but completely ignored by Hollywood and, to a lesser degree, by Western cinema in general. Some argue that this could be explained with combination of Cold War and American chauvinism. In any case, Weste…More