Enemy at the Gates

A Feature film of

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Produced by

Repérage

Production year2001

French release14/03/2001

Runtime2 h 10 min

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Autumn 1942. The Third Reich’s power is at its zenith. One city alone now stands in the way of Hitler’s total victory over Europe. This city takes on emblematic proportions in the Führer’s mind. It’s named after Hitler’s last remaining adversary on the continent: Stalingrad, Stalin’s city. If it falls the war will be won. In the martyred city torn apart by bombs, Vassili Zaitsev, a young Russian, is thrown like thousands of others into the hell of this battle already lost from the outset. Vassili’s superior sharpshooter talents – forged from a youth spent hunting wolves – capture the attention of another officer, Ivan Danilov. The two men, both the same age, become friends. Danilov’s aim is to breathe life into the embers of waning heroism, and provide the decimated troops with the strength to continue fighting the implacable German war machine. Vassili becomes the hero of his inflammatory propaganda. An underground empire of destroyed cellars, shelters and passages lies beneath the r...