Enemy at the Gates R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 25, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Paramount

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AUDIENCE SCORE
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...It's remarkable, a war story told as a chess game...
Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 16, 2001
There's never much risk of reality intruding--just a lot of histrionic James Horner music nd plenty of designer stubble on the soldiers' faces. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Feb 9, 2007
Hackneyed material.
Village Voice
Mar 27, 2001
...Panoramic, meticulously plotted combat scenes...
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 23, 2001
...Excellent central performances. Law proves a first-rank leading man, radiating intelligence, nobility and sex appeal... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Apr 1, 2001
...Annaud's film boasts harrowing battle scenes....The film brings history to vital life...
Rolling Stone
Apr 12, 2001
Set-pieces get you so far (and Annaud delights in blowing this set to pieces), but the script's shortcomings aren't camouflaged by the decision to adopt Home Counties' accents as the film's lingua franca. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006

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September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing armies, Russian recruit Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law) finally acquires a rifle from Political Officer Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). Danilov is astonished when Zaitsev picks off several German officers. On their return to the Russian lines, Danilov writes about Zaitsev's exploits in the army newspaper. Zaitsev is assigned to a sniper unit. He kills more German officers and, thanks to Danilov, becomes a hero. In retaliation, the Germans bring in sharpshooter Major König (Ed Harris) from Berlin--to hunt Zaitsev. The two snipers engage in a desperate duel, as the appalling Battle of Stalingrad rages.

In ENEMY AT THE GATES, director Jean-Jacques Annaud uses a palate of dull greens, blues, and greys to tell the powerful, true story of Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev. The film is distinguished by fine performances from Law, Fiennes, Rachel Weisz as a female soldier, and Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev--with Harris particularly notable as the chilly, aristocratic König.

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  • UPC: 032429265104
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