History Film / EnemyAtTheGates

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Not quite young, but no one who knows UsefulNotes/NikitaKhruschev at this time suspects he will succeed Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union - least of all himself.

''Enemy at the Gates'' (also known as ''Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates'') is a 2001 war movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Creator/JudeLaw as a Russian sniper in the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet Red Army]] in the Great Patriotic War (the Eastern Front of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, 1941-1945), during the battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943). At the time it came out it was the most expensive film ever produced by a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an studio. It is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, that of the real-life sniper [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]], with the basic plot based off a segment in the non-fiction book ''Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad''.

See also the 1993 German film ''Film/{{Stalingrad|1993}}'' and the 2013 Russian made ''Film/{{Stalingrad|2013}}'' for other points of view on the battle.

''Enemy at the Gates'' (also known as ''Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates'') is a 2001 war movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Creator/JudeLaw as a Russian sniper in the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet Red Army]] in the Great Patriotic War (the Eastern Front of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, 1941-1945), during the battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943). At the time it came out it was the most expensive film ever produced by a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an studio. It's VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, that of the real-life sniper [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]], with the basic plot based off a segment in the non-fiction book ''Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad''.

''Enemy at the Gates'' (also known as ''Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates'') is a 2001 war movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Creator/JudeLaw as a Russian sniper in the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet Red Army]] in the Great Patriotic War (the Eastern Front of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, 1941-1945), during the battle of Stalingrad. At the time it came out it was the most expensive film ever produced by a European studio. It's VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, that of the real-life sniper [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]], with the basic plot based off a segment in the non-fiction book ''Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad''.

''Enemy at the Gates'' (also known as ''Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates'') is a 2001 war movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Creator/JudeLaw as a Russian sniper in the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet Red Army]] in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]], during the battle of Stalingrad. At the time it came out it was the most expensive film ever produced by a European studio. It's VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, that of the real-life sniper [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]], with the basic plot based off a segment in the non-fiction book ''Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad''.

** In the scene where Vasili is brought before the cameras at a ceremony in his honor, the ''"State Anthem of the Soviet Union"'' can be heard playing. However, the film takes place in 1942, long before the song was even written. Furthermore, the lyrics of the song are actually that of the modified version introduced in 1977. The national anthem of the USSR at the time the film takes place would have been ''"The Internationale."''

* EvilVersusEvil -- The Soviets are shown to be only slightly better than the Germans, while omitting anything that would show that they were fighting a war for national survival against a genocidal Nazi invasion. Not surprisingly the film lost at least 20 million at the US box office.

''Enemy at the Gates'' (also known as ''Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates'') is a 2001 war movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Creator/JudeLaw as a Russian sniper in the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet Red Army]] in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]], during the battle of Stalingrad. At the time it came out it was the most expensive film ever produced by a European studio. It's VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, that of the real-life sniper [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]], with the basic plot based off a subplot in the non-fiction book ''Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad''.

* {{Chickification}}: In the book, Tania is a borderline SociopathicSoldier with a mild infatuation with Zaytsev. In the movie, she's a lovesick DamselInDistress and love interest who occasionally is implied to do some soldiering. In real life, Tania's claims of being a badass sniper at Stalingrad are doubted by some historians.