Enemy At The Gates (DVD) Review

For all the critical broad recognition that surrounded the opening scene of saving Private Ryan (who is portrayed D-Day invasion of Normandy landing), little is said about opening scenes of Enemy at the gate. Just as realistic and, of course, as, if not more, important, the enemy at the gates of paint vivid pictures of Battle of Stalingrad.
As Nazi forces besiege the city, Russian peasants are sent across the river by boat unprotected. As Luftwaffe swoop down from the sky and rain of bullets on men below, only in mountainous bodies overturn on top of people could save him from himself shot. Those who survive and make it to shore, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle - but not everyone, only every other person In the men charged with unarmed people with weapons, and when he killed to collect the weapons himself and fight with the enemy courageously.
Sharp malfunctions farm boy Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law) finds himself in this sense a bloody environment. As part of the initial wave of Russian advance, he had to play hide among the dead and mangled body of his countrymen, when the Germans to destroy the Russian offensive. Using bodies as cover, he puts his sniper skills to work, and not against animals, he used to shoot for food, but also against the German officers exposed his crosshairs. Vasily in brilliant talents, immediately recognized Commisar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), which ends up befriending a man.
As powerful figure in the Communist propaganda machine, Danilov uses his skills and communication Vasily transformed into larger than life hero, giving the impression that he is capable of defeating the German army all by himself. This Danilov hopes that by creating a recognizable face for military purposes, he can raise the morale of the Russian armed forces and reverse against advancing German armies.
But relations between the two men was compounded when Vasily Danilov and fall in love with the same woman, a woman soldier named Tanya Chernova (Rachel Weisz). Will Danilov, in turn, envy him against his friend? The man who made Vasily certainly capable of tearing it down, and the Soviet Union, no one is above the anger Vasily Stalin& 39;s problems is compounded announced the arrival of his German counterpart, Major Konig (Ed Harris), winner of the Iron Cross and the most celebrated sniper in the history of Germany.
Based true stories about real life, two soldiers, Zaitsev and Konig, the enemy at the gates sticks closely with the historical record concerning the maps between these noted personalities during the war. Are they simply creations propaganda? Or is it the individual battles century? Only history can make that distinction. Meanwhile, the enemy at the gates of doing for themselves a place among the great wars, tragedies of our era. A well-cultivated scenario, coupled with unprecedented visual display of destructive war, makes this must-see. film - both for its educational and historical value, as well as its edge of his seat excitement.



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