Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates is a movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 2001, adapted from a book written by William Craig which loosely described events surrounding World War II Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev and his German rival, Major König, during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943. Another book called The War of the Rats formed the basis for the sniper duel element of the screenplay.

Main cast

• Jude Law - Vasily Zaitsev (spelt "Vassili" in the closing credits)
• Rachel Weisz - Tanya Chernova (spelt "Tania" in the closing credits)
• Joseph Fiennes - Commissar Danilov
• Bob Hoskins - Nikita Khrushchev (spelt "Krushchev" in the closing credits)
• Ed Harris - Major König
• Matthias Habich - General (later Field Marshal) Friedrich Paulus, commander-in-chief of the German Sixth Army
• Eva Mattes - Mother Filipov
• Gabriel Marshall-Thomson - Sacha Filipov
• Ron Perlman - Sniper Koulikov
• Sophie Rois - Ludmilla