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Top cast Edit. Jude Law Vassili as Vassili. Ron Perlman Koulikov as Koulikov. Sophie Rois Ludmilla as Ludmilla. Ivan Shvedoff Volodya as Volodya.

Mario Bandi Anton as Anton. Mikhail Matveev Grandfather as Grandfather. Jean-Jacques Annaud. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind.

The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops.

The political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually starts to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. Rated R for strong graphic war violence and some sexuality.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Jude Law and Ed Harris were cast largely on the expressiveness of their eyes. They were frequently called to convey emotion without saying a word. Goofs The movie depicts events which occurred during one of the coldest and snowiest winters in Russian history yet we almost never see snow. The cold was so intense that it was considered a common enemy on both sides. Quotes Commisar Danilov : I've been such a fool, Vassili.

One can argue that this is a gross understatement because more than just the love story is out of place, according to many Russians who saw the movie. Even though time has passed, the movie remains one of the most popular western films about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Millions of people form their understanding of this battle when watching it. So, who is right here from the point of view of historical accuracy - Critic Consensus, or the insulted veterans? The Red Army at first was desperately defending the city summer-autumn of , and then launched a counteroffensive, encircling hundreds of thousands of German troops autumn — winter A critical image of the Red Army is conveyed from the very beginning when the film shows new troops, among which is the main character, Zaitsev, arriving at the Stalingrad front.

On their way they are screamed at, threatened and humiliated by commanders. They are transported in crowded boxcars like cattle and the cars are locked from the outside. This is done, as one might guess, to stop soldiers from deserting. However, according to military historian Boris Yulin, this could not have taken place because it was forbidden.

Indeed, in the case of a German air raid or shelling the men locked inside would be dead men. Soldiers are told to take the weapon from those killed in action. It took a team of nearly five months to create all the prosthetic corpses seen in the film.

At the time of its release, this was the biggest budget British movie ever made. While much is said of Stalingrad being of symbolic value for Hitler, it was a transit hub for oil deliveries for the Soviets, who got their oil from Chechnya and Azerbaijan at the time. The whole southern focus of the Axis campaign on the Eastern Front was to capture the Caucasus oilfields.

In the scene in the printing press when the characters of Vassili and Danilov have an argument, the tears in Jude Law 's eyes are genuine.

Originally the story was a long-cherished project of Sergei M. The Battle of Stalingrad was also a project that Sergio Leone was set to make but the project fell through. Vasily uses a Mosin-Nagant rifle during the film. It is chambered in 7. Stalingrad resistance stopped the Nazis, and the words "Enemy at the Gate" became a call for anti-Nazi resistance everywhere.

Same words are used in the book "Enemy at the Gate: The Battle for Stalingrad" by William Craig, which also documents the real-life war exploits of Vasilli Zaitsev. On the bluray copy, there are several featurettes about the making of this film. In one of them, director Annaud said there are only 3 pages in the entire book devoted to the sniper battle between Zaitsev and the German sniper. The film was poorly received at Berlin festival. The German-Russian writer Wladimir Kaminer who played an extra in the film, criticizes how the Soviet soldiers are portrayed in the film.

The locomotive used for filming the troop train scene is, ironically, a German-built "Kriegslok" "war locomotive". About were captured by the Soviets but not used by the Soviet Railways until after the war see Goofs.

The wreckage of a German aircraft outside the department store scene is a Siebel Si, a light military transport built in small numbers. It is consistent with the period and the markings are authentic for the Russian Front. It was built in France and Czechoslovakia, as well as Germany, and many were operated by both civilian and military air fleets until the s. It is clearly a mock up, however, and the tailplane is wrong: it is a single tailplane and the had a twin tail.

Some Red Army Stalingrad veterans were so offended by inaccuracies in the film and how the Red Army was portrayed that on May 7, , shortly after the film premiered in Russia, they expressed their displeasure in the Duma, demanding a ban of the film, but their request was not granted.

From a strategic point of view the Battle of Stalingrad was of much less importance than the Second Battle of El Alamein. Joseph Fiennes was the first actor cast.