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 enlarge | Actors: Matthais Habich, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Eva Mattes, Ron Perlman
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  375 reviews
Sales Rank: 3590
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 131
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 097363386247
ISBN: 0792172760
UPC: 097363386247
EAN: 9780792172765
ASIN: B00003CXRA
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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Condition: **NO ARTWORK - NEW BLANK CASE** Guaranteed to play. Normal case wear with stickers, very slight scratches. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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 How about realism? October 12, 2005
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I feel awkward stating this, but I honestly found no realism in the movie Enemy at the Gates. Sure, this was a great movie for passing the time, great action, fine acting, and so forth. The truth is the whole plotline is false, not that they ever truly claim it to be based on a true story. He is one soldier, one of millions in Soviet army. They sadly idolize Zaitsev as the hero of Soviet. The truth was, there would be little knowledge of him around Soviet Union at the time. Maybe the area sure, but the truth was the movie acted as if he would turn the war around.
 Hollywood mutilated a good true story...... October 10, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The problem with the Hollywood version of the story is how they changed the story. Tania was Zaitsev's lover, but she was wounded during a raid on a German HQ, not by shrapnel and Zaitsev actually carried her back to Soviet lines. The young boy, Sacha Fillipov, is also a true character who was hanged for his spying. The duel between Zaitsev and Koenig was more like Hollywood in real life than it was in the movie. Zaitsev and Kulikov, who died in the movie, managed to trick Konings to shoot a helmet, Kulikov stood up and acted as if he had been shot, when Konings looked at his "victim", Zaitsev shot him in between the eyes. The movie is very good though, and has a very good look at the eastern front during WW2. For another good movie about the eastern front, try "Stalingrad" by Wolfgang Petersen, it is a German movie, and is very good and accurate.
A good cat and mouse game October 1, 2005
Ed Harris (the Nazi) and Jude Law (the Russian) are matched against each other as World War II snipers serving their country. Joseph Fiennes is also good in a pivotal role as is Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev and Rachel Weisz as a strong female character (who just wants to throw herself on Vasseil's just becasue he famous of being a great sniper) any typical stupid woman. This movie is a compelling look at the constantly needed reminder that simply, war is terrible and the innocent victims that suffer is even more tragic.
Who Blinked first? September 22, 2005
First, you have to love war movies. I do. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps in WWII. I worked with snipers. Theirs is a strange, lonely and remote life. They are outstanding at what they do; they are dedicated and disciplined. People today, and students of history, have no idea of just how close Hitler came to having The USSR as his Crown Jewel, except for the "Russian Winter". The "cat & mouse" games; the "chess" games that are played out, with such great acting, between a Russian peasant and a member of the German hierarchy, makes this movie a "must see" and the DVD a "keeper"
 It's a movie about people... only using war as background! September 14, 2005
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a movie about people using war as the background. It's a good suspense and entertaining movie. However, it contains a typical theme in many Hollywood-style war movies that the effort of one hero destroyed an entire German army. But, the collapse of German troops at Stalingrad couldn't be only caused by a single Russian sniper. There are many other factors to it. Please read and study the history or the original book...
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