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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2001\u00a0 \u2013 125\u2032 \u2013 A USA\/Germany\/France Co-Production.\u00a0Drama, Thriller,\u00a0Action, War, Romance, Period & History, Co-Produced by France. Autumn 1942. The Third Reich\u2019s power is at its zenith. One city alone now stands in the way of Hitler\u2019s total victory over Europe. This city takes on emblematic proportions in the F\u00fchrer\u2019s mind. It\u2019s named after Hitler\u2019s last remaining adversary on the continent: Stalingrad, Stalin\u2019s city. If it falls the war will be won. In the martyred city torn apart by bombs, Vassili Zaitsev, a young Russian, is thrown like thousands of others into the hell of this battle already lost from the outset. Vassili\u2019s superior sharpshooter talents \u2013 forged from a youth spent hunting wolves \u2013 capture the attention of another officer, Ivan Danilov. The two men, both the same age, become friends. Danilov\u2019s aim is to breathe life into the embers of waning heroism, and provide the decimated troops with the strength to continue fighting the implacable German war machine. Vassili becomes the hero of his inflammatory propaganda. An underground empire of destroyed cellars, shelters and passages lies beneath the ruins of the city. It\u2019s here, constantly prey to death, that life has taken refuge. It\u2019s here, too, that the two friends meet Tania Chernova, a young student who has returned to her hometown to fight against the Nazi intruder. The bloodiest battle of World War II, where life expectancy is no more than a few days, is no place to start dreaming of the future. But when the two men meet Tania they can\u2019t resist imagining better times ahead. However, just when they feel the desire to start living again, Vassili the hunter becomes the prey. Danilov\u2019s propaganda vaunting Vassili\u2019s sniper talents has been more successful than could have been imagined. Exasperated by the Wehrmacht\u2019s losses in the rubble of the ruined city, the German army, under pressure from Hitler, sends its top marksman, Major Konig, to kill the man who has become the symbol of the indomitable Russian resistance in Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad proved that the Germans weren\u2019t invincible. It announced the beginning of the end of the Third Reich and the victory of the free world.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ENEMY AT THE GATES | 2001\u00a0 \u2013 125\u2032 \u2013 A USA\/Germany\/France Co-Production.\u00a0Drama, Thriller,\u00a0Action, War, Romance, Period & History, Co-Produced by France. Written by: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Directed by:\u00a0Jean-Jacques Annaud. Starring:\u00a0Jude Law,\u00a0Rachel Weisz,\u00a0Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall-Thompson. In English. A Paramount Pictures release. | Autumn 1942. The Third Reich\u2019s power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,127,11,43,45,19,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama","category-history","category-romance","category-thriller","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22808,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions\/22808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Jean-Jacques Annaud.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jean-Jacques Annaud.
\nStarring:\u00a0Jude Law,\u00a0Rachel Weisz,\u00a0Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall-Thompson.
\nIn English.
\nA Paramount Pictures release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n