Enemy at the gates last sniper sceneending spoiler. The scope mounted on vasilis rifle in the movie is of the pu type. The screenplay was written by annaud and alain godard. Vulgar, wont want impressionable children or those who are too sensitive to watch it.
The next shot shows vassili looking at the leaflet, but now there. The mouse is a young russian named vassili zaitsev jude law, who arrives on the shores of the volga river to defend stalingrad, an important city in which the germans are attempting to. Enemy at the gate one out of tow gets a rifle, one without follows him the one with the rifle shoot when the one with the rifle gets killed one who is following pick up the rifle and shoot. Jude law holds a glock 30 as ted pikul in existenz 1999. Hitlers third reich, which had been spreading like a dark stain across the global landscape, invaded stalingrad in 1942. They could have only done a worse job if they were trying. Enemy at the gate one out of tow gets a rifle, one without follows him the. One man has the rifle, the next man has the bullets. With jude law as a russian sniper, enemy at the gates keeps its eye on the big picture even when focusing on the. Enemy at the gates internet movie firearms database guns. Rachel weisz internet movie firearms database guns in. The battle for stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the battle of stalingrad in the winter of 1942 and 1943. Zaytsevs remarkable story was brought to life in 2001s feature film enemy at the gates starring jude law.
Jude law takes aim with a mosin nagant m9 sniper rifle as vassili zaitsev in enemy at the gates 2001. The theatrical movie poster with the infamous reversed image of a mosin nagant m9 sniper rifle. Sense and sensibility 1995 i am not into jane austen, but this movie was actually really good. Joseph fiennes in enemy at the gates 2001 rachel weisz in enemy at the gates 2001 jude.
Once inside the demoralized and besieged city, vassily puts his shooting skills to. Enemy at the gates 2001 out of four by blake french. During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust. This is the rifle vasily zaytsev used to wage a oneman war in. I simply want to weigh in with a very positive response to enemy at the gates. The movie is staunchly anticommunist and passes judgment on the entire system at the end. A battle between two nations became a conflict between two men.
Enemy at the gates is a 2001 war film written and directed by jeanjacques annaud and based on william craigs 1973 nonfiction book enemy at the gates. During which, at times, make one believe and feel throughout the movie. There is another blaring inaccuracy in the movie although i enjoyed it very much. Enemy at the gates is right on target war movie is right. Enemy at the gates takes place in 1942 and details a cat and mouse chase between two snipers. The films main character is a fictionalized version of sniper vasily zaytsev, a hero of the soviet union during world war ii. Watch enemy at the gates full movie streaming online duration 1 minutes and broadcast on 20010316 mpaa rating is 236.
Every pistol shown in the film seems to be correct, being either tokarev tt33s or 1895 nagant revolvers, except for one. Gene hackman costars as brill, a former nsa operative who comes out of hiding to. Released in 2001, enemy at the gates has become a classic world war ii movie. Orphaned and crippled, heavens daughter annie is whisked off to farthinggale manor by tony tatterton. Movies like enemy at the gates if you like enemy at the gates you are looking for serious, rough and bleak movies about with sniper, military, war, nazism, world war two, friendship and assassination themes of drama, history and war genre shot in ireland or uk.
Enemy at the gates certainly played up the zaitsevkoenig sniper duel, and so did the history channel special. Enemy at the gates internet movie firearms database. Enemy at the gates is 2001 britishgermanirsky war film directed by jean. Hey folks, heres an excellent look at the facts behind the story that the film, enemy at the gates will be based upon. Guns of enemy at the gates range 365 released in 2001, enemy at the gates has become a classic world war ii movie. With jason priestley, lizzie boys, johannah newmarch, jason cermak. Laws character used a sniper variant of the mosinnagant m9 rifle while harriss. When danilov first shows vassili the leaflets that praise his exploits, the shot shows a leaflet coming off the printing press with four xed out helmets, indicating how many german soldiers vassili has killed. The story is one that introduces much of the world to a side of world war ii that not many know aboutthe life of a soviet sniper during one of the. The various sounds from enemy at the gates paramount 2001 stimulate the viewers sense of hearing. She pines for her lost family, especially her beloved cousinhalfbrother luke.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. When he hands the rifle over to zaitsev, the rifle has a hex receiver. I was watching the movie again recently and i noticed that there might be several more mosin variants found. Enemy of the state internet movie firearms database. Without the warm glow of his love, shes lost in the shadows of despair and forced in to submission by nurse broadfield. In the scene taking place at the fountain, danilovs rifle has a round receiver. Vasily zaitsevs actual sniper rifle on display at the volgograds stalingrad panorama museum. In enemy at the gates, the soviet soldiers are given. It centers around the reallife battle of stalingrad in which two snipers, vasily zaytsev jude law and major erwin konig ed harris, engaged in a highstakes, long distance duel to see which side had better snipers.
Enemy of the state is a 1998 action thriller directed by tony scott and stars will smith as robert dean, a washington d. Enemy at the gates 2001 ending spoiler movie mistakes. War the bridges at tokori, hell is for heros, enemy at war collection platoon, the thin red line, behind enemy lines, courage under jude law the collection. German army historical records never mention an elite sniper named major koenig hunting vassili zaitsev at stalingrad. Enemy at the gates the society for military history. Under the leadership of krusche v bob hoskins, the c itizens of stalingrad are. Enemy at the gates is a 2001 war film written and directed by jeanjacques annaud and. A russian and a german sniper play a game of catandmouse during the battle of stalingrad.
Enemy at the gates wont find too many friends at the box office fans of war movies and of jude law will appreciate it, but there isnt much for everyone else in this midmarch downer. Enemy at the gates 39 movie clip do you know how to shoot. The camera follows the leaflet off the press, danilov picks up the leaflet and hands it vassili. Taken as a historical drama rather than an attempt to flawlessly depict an historical incident, this is topnotch entertainment.
And that includes enemy at the gates, a film he cowrote with alain godard. Enemy at the gates 2001 when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Enemy at the gates a history lesson about the true story. Enemy at the gates year 2001 genre drama war history type movies idmb rating 7. The opening scenes of both the movie enemy at the gates and the russian campaign of the computer game call of duty feature a sequence in which the main character arrives at the docks on stalingrad in late 1942, and is promptly queued up in front of a truck, in which commissars are issuing rifles and ammunition to the conscripts. The movie enemy at the gates, directed by jeanjacques annaud and starring jude law, ed harris, rachel weisz and joseph fiennes is a fictionalized account of the true story of vasilii zaitsev, a soviet sniper who won fame during the battle of stalingrad. Jude law, joseph fiennes, rachel weisz, ed harris, bob hoskins. From internet movie firearms database guns in movies, tv and video games. Gene shalit, today the year is 1942 and the nazis are cutting a deadly swat h through russia. Mosins, and enemy at the gates the exhaust notes blog. Enemy at the gates dvd an allstar cast lights up the screen in this riveting epic hailed as a vivid dramatization of one of historys titanic turning poi nts. During the initial human wave charge, after the soviet conscripts turn to retreat back to their lines and are cut down by friendly fire, there is one camera shot which shows two nkvd officers firing semiautomatic pistols.
The story, inspired by the book by american historian william craig recounts in a dramatic conflict of the bloody war battle by the russian sniper ace vassili zaitsev jude law. The film was very, very loosely based on vasily zaytsevs biography notes of a russian sniper. Enemy at the gates is a 2001 world war ii film directed by jeanjacques annaud. Here are a few things you probably didnt know about enemy at the gates. The action in the movie revolves around the duel between zaitsev and a german sniper sent. Idiocracy the most important movie of the 21st century and im not kidding, and hilarious to boot. When zaitsev hands the rifle back, the rifle has a round receiver again. Enemy at the gates full movie watch streaming online movie. Ive seen this photo thousands of times, from renting the movie out to customers, and from straightening the display shelves every day, but ive never noticed the lefthanded mosin nagant though. The film centers around the reallife battle of stalingrad on the eastern front in which two snipers, vasily zaytsev jude law of the red army and. Using various actors from different countries, to me, was poorly thought out. In the water they immediately come under fire from the german artillery but face certain death from the guns of the soviet army if they turn back. Enemy at the gates internet movie firearms database guns in.
The film is based upon william craigs book of the same name, yet the entire movie is based upon a sniper duel that covers no more than two pages of the entire book. To hear it straight from the man himself vasily zaitsev it was just a chance encounter. Judging from the opening scenes of enemy at the gates, it would seem soviet officers were using as much ammunition to exact swift punishment on their own deserting soldiers as they were spending on the germans. Some veterans of the battle depicted in the movie hated its. Jude law stars in the film as vasily zaitsev, an ordinary russian soldier who. The film was trying to set the background for the famous sniper zaitsev, which meant showing what stalingrad was like in only a few minutes. Jude law stars in the film as vasily zaitsev, an ordinary russian soldier who became a legend for his feats as a sniper fighting during. Jude law stars in the film as vasily zaitsev, an ordinary russian soldier who became a legend for his feats as a sniper fighting during the battle of stalingrad. The dialogue during the film was made less believable due to proper british dialect. With jude law, ed harris, joseph fiennes, rachel weisz. Enemy at the gates recap a great war movie based on 2nd world. This is the film that jude law, ed harris, rachel weisz and joseph fiennes will be starring in for director, jeanjacques annaud.
All the while this was going on, my interest in mosins continued to develop. As the nazis struggle to take hold of stalingrad, russian sniper vassili zaitsev is built into a local hero by propaganda officer danilov, his. I was working for hollywood video on highway 18 in jackson when this movie came out. Ask anything you want to know, or answer other peoples questions. Enemy at the gates 2001 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers.
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