Enemy_At_The_Gates

Enemy At The Gates Enemy at the Gates portrays the battle of Staingrad between the Soviet Union and the invading Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1943 in which at least a million red army soldiers died. Located north of the Caucasus, deep in southern Russia, and hugging the Volga river for miles the city of Stalingrad was vital to the Soviet war effort. If the Germans had taken the city the flow of vital supplies from the mineral rich Caucasus to the north of Russia and the Ural Mountains would have been completely severed and the entire country would have collapsed. The film opens with the transfer of Soviet troops by train to the front on the banks of the Volga river. Among them is a young conscript named Vassili Zaitsev, played by Jude Law, who meets up with a political commissar, named Danilov in a sniper ambush on several high level Germans. Danilov turns Vassili into a national hero through the Soviet Red Army propaganda newspaper he runs at the request of the Soviet high command represented in Stalingrad by Nikita Khrushchev. Vassili and his comrades start terrorizing the high command of the German Army and the SS by killing several enemy, gates, vassili, major, soviet, film, war, story, danilov, tania, sniper, love, germans, very, stalingrad, soldier, konig, just, history, high, city, because, battle, young, world, through, one, himself, effort, completely, between, becomes, anybody, zaitsev, two, turns, towards