Nikita Khrushchev Bob Hoskins arrives in Stalingrad to coordinate the city's defences and demands ideas to improve morale. Danilov, now a senior lieutenant, suggests that the people need figures to idolise and give them hope, and publishes tales of Vasily's exploits in the army's newspaper that paint him as a national hero and propaganda icon.
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Vasily is transferred to the sniper division, and he and Danilov become friends. They also both become romantically interested in Tania Chernova Rachel Weisz , a citizen of Stalingrad who has become a private in the local militia. In fear for her safety, Danilov has her transferred to an intelligence unit away from the battlefield, ostensibly to make use of her German language skills in translating radio intercepts.
A renowned marksman and head of the German Army sniper school at Zossen , he lures Vasily into a trap and kills two of his fellow snipers, but Vasily manages to escape. Khrushchev pressures Danilov to bring the sniper standoff to a conclusion. Tania and Vasily have meanwhile fallen in love and have sex in the Soviet barracks at night. The jealous Danilov disparages Vasily in a letter to his superiors.
He then kills the boy and hangs his body off a pole to bait Vasily.
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Thinking she is dead, Danilov regrets his jealousy of Vasily and expresses disenchantment over his previous ardency for the Communist cause. Two months later, after Stalingrad has been liberated and the German forces have surrendered, Vasily finds Tania recovering in a field hospital. He was interviewed by Vasily Grossman during the battle and the account of that interview, lightly fictionalized in his novel, Life and Fate , [7] is substantially the same as that shown in the movie without naming the German sniper with whom he dueled.
Although William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: Zaitsev claimed in an interview to have engaged in a sniper duel over a number of days.
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Zaitsev, the only historical source for the story, stated that after killing the German sniper and upon collecting his identification tags , he found that he had killed the head of the Berlin Sniper School. In the film, Jude Law portraying Zaitsev uses a 7. The film portrays Zaitsev as barely able to read or write, while in reality he had taken construction and accounting courses and worked in administrative duties. Tania's character was also heavily fictionalized.
She was, according to her own reports, actually a sniper herself who trained under Zaitsev during the war and became one of the most infamous and ruthless snipers at Stalingrad although this is doubted by Antony Beevor. She was motivated to join the war as a means to avenge her grandparents who were murdered by the invading Germans.
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Moreover, the Soviet national anthem played in the movie was composed in by Alexander Alexandrov ; however, the movie takes place in and the anthem at the time would have been the Internationale. The reviews were summarized as "Atmospheric and thrilling, 'Enemy at the Gates' gets the look and feel of war right.
However, the love story seems out of place. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that it "is about two men placed in a situation where they have to try to use their intelligence and skills to kill each other.
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When Annaud focuses on that, the movie works with rare concentration. The additional plot stuff and the romance are kind of a shame.
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