Back العدو على الأبواب Arabic Qapıdakı düşmən (film, 2001) Azerbaijani Враг пред портата Bulgarian এনিমি অ্যাট দ্য গেটস Bengali/Bangla Enemic a les portes Catalan Nepřítel před branami Czech Enemy at The Gates Welsh Duell – Enemy at the Gates German Εχθρός προ των Πυλών Greek Enemy at the Gates Spanish

Enemy at the Gates

For other uses, see Enemy at the Gate (disambiguation).

Enemy at the Gates
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJean-Jacques Annaud
Written byJean-Jacques Annaud
Alain Godard
Based onEnemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
by William Craig
Produced byJean-Jacques Annaud
Starring
CinematographyRobert Fraisse
Edited byNoëlle Boisson
Humphrey Dixon
Music byJames Horner
Production
companies
Mandalay Pictures
Repérage Films
Distributed byParamount Pictures (North America and select international territories)
Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom, Ireland and France)
Constantin Film (Germany)
Summit Entertainment (International)[1]
Release date
  • 16 March 2001 (2001-03-16)
Running time
131 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
France[3]
Germany
Ireland[4]
LanguagesEnglish
German
Russian
Budget$68 million[5]
Box office$97 million[5]

Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) 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.[6][7] The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II.[8][9] It includes a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.[10]

The cast includes Jude Law as Zaitsev, Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova, and Ed Harris as König, with Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich in supporting roles.[11]

  1. ^ Goodridge, Mike (17 December 2001). "Summit, Mandalay extend relationship till 2004". Screen International. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Enemy at the Gates (2001)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Enemy at the Gates (2001)". Unifrance. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. ^ "British Film Institute: Enemy at the Gates (2001)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Enemy at the Gates". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Meek 2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Interview mit Jean-Jacques Annaud" [Interview with Jean-Jacques Annaud, referenced by Constantin Film]. Epilog.de (in German). Archived from the original on 18 August 2007.
  8. ^ "Biografiya: Vasiliy Zaytsev" Биография: Василий Зайцев [Biography: Vasily Zaitsev]. Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia (in Russian). Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Reese 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Malhotra 2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stone 2002 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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