Enemy at the Gates a film about the World War II
movie review
Yesterday I watched
Enemy at the Gates movie. The movie is
quite good I really enjoyed.
The story behind the movie is circling around the battle of
Stalingrad in the Second World War.
The movie presents the harsh reality of the WWII, the Nazis city
occupation and the Russian's desperate attempts to save the
city.
The movie was produced in 2001 and is directed by Jean-Jacques
Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris.
The movie title comes after a book written in 1973 with the name
Enemy at the Gates: Battle of Stalingrad which describes the
events that happened in that dark times of human history.
The two key actors are the Soviet sniper
Vasily (Vasilii)
Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his German counterpart Major Erwin
Konig.
The movie entwine's the story of Zaitsev who used to a shepherd
from the Ural Mountains and has become a soldier for the Red Army
in attempt to save his motherland from the Nazis invasion.
In one of the film movies Vasily has remarkably killed a number of
soldiers by stalking pretending to be dead among the heaps of dead
Russians.
One other soldier by a lucky accident (Commisar Danilov) who also
survives through the pogrom and watches the heroism of Vasilii
Zaicev and as he is assigned in the Red Army publishing he writes a
lot of Articles about Zaitsev's heroism and quickly turns him into
a National hero.
As Zaitsev becomes loved by Russian people and Germans recognize
him as a obstacle to their invasion they send the Major Erwin Konig
(a notable and honorable sniper to kill Zaitsev) and thus disrupt
the Russian Army hero and hence morale.
Zaitsev and Danilov meets Tania (a beautiful young woman) serving
for the red Army. They both fall in love the beautiful Tania.
It's not a long time and Tania is also in love with Vasily.
As the movie progresses Tania and Vasily start a love affair. Tania
is seriously injured in one of the further scenes and is sent with
a boat to a nearby town hospital.
As General Konig kills a number of Zaitsev's army fellows, and
throughout the movie the battle between two becomes more and more
personal.
As Tania is thought to be dead by Commisar Danilov and he cannot
bear the loss because he is love with her, he sacrificies himself
by showing up in a battle scene where General Konig and Vasily are
staling at each other.
Danilov gets a head shot from Herr Konig's rifle and thus the
general prepares himself to get from his sniper hiding, thinking he
has killed Vasily.
As he wents out of his hiding-place he sees Vasily waiting for him
and Vasily shots him right in the head.
It's been a while and the Russians had been victorious over the
Germans and the Stalingrad battle is won. Zaitsev visits the
hospital where Tania is being recovering from her serious injuries.
The movie ends with the happy scene of Tania and Vasily being
together again! Quite a Romance.
The movie's main actors are not russians unfortunately but still I
find the movie to be quite a good one and I recommend it for
wathching to anybody willing to spend some good 2 hours time in
watching the love drama.