Enemy at the Gates
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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Written by | Jean-Jacques Annaud Alain Godard |
| Based on | Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig |
| Produced by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Robert Fraisse |
| Edited by | Noëlle Boisson Humphrey Dixon |
| Music by | James Horner |
Production companies | Mandalay Pictures Repérage Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (North America and select international territories) Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom, Ireland and France) Constantin Film (Germany) Summit Entertainment (International) |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom France Germany Ireland |
| Languages | English German Russian |
| Budget | $68 million |
| Box office | $97 million |
Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. It includes a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
The cast includes Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich.