Stalingrad (2001)

Stalingrad ( Enemy At the spoil ) is a film carried out by Jean-Jacques Annaud left in room in 2001.

Synopsis

The scenario describes the confrontation between two marksmen instrumentalized by the Propagande of their respective, Soviet camp or Nazi, throughout the Bataille of Stalingrad. Besides this propaganda holds a rather important role in film.

Vassili Zaitsev is a young marksman. During the head office of Stalingrad, it meets Danilov, a political officer, to which it shows his talents by killing Germans, in particular officers. Danilov proposes with the command to make of Vassili a hero, an icon to give again hope with the men, by publishing its exploits. In response, the German staff, dispatches his best marksman, major Koenig. The agreement between Danilov and Vassili starts by being exhausted because this last tomb in love with Tanya, it also printer of elite and éprise of Vassili…

Comments

The history of these two enemies takes as a starting point the confrontation between Vasily Zaitsev, hero of the Russian war patriotic and to whom was allotted 242 killed enemies, and its German rival, Major Heinz Thorvald, main instructor of the German marksmen, sent to Stalingrad to kill that which had become one of the symbols of Soviet resistance vis-a-vis the Wehrmacht. The existence of this Major Thorvald is the subject of a debate, certain historians advancing whom it would have been created by Soviet propaganda to increase the prestige of Zaitsev.

Data sheet

French Title: Stalingrad
Canadian Title: Enemy with the doors
original Title: Enemy At the Spoil
Réalisation: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Scenario: Jean-Jacques Annaud and Alain Producing Godard
: Jean-Jacques Annaud, John D. Schofield
Music: James Horner
Photography: Robert Mills
Montage: Noëlle Drink, Humphrey Dixon
Format: Colors (DeLuxe) - 2,35:1 (Super 35) - digital Doby and SDR - 35 mm
Country of origin: Germany, the United States, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom
Languages of turning: English, German
Comings out date: February 7th 2001 (first with the Berlinale), March 14th 2001 (France, Belgium), March 16th 2001 (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom)
Kind: Film of war
Lasted: 131 minutes (2h13)

Distribution

Jude Law: Vassili Zaitsev
Rachel Weisz : Tania Tchernova'

Joseph Fiennes: Police chief Danilov

Bob Hoskins: Nikita Khrouchtchev

ED Harris: Major König

Ron Perlman: Koulikov

Eva Mattes: Mrs Filipova

Gabriel Marshall-Thomson: Sacha

Matthias Habich : the General Friedrich Paulus

Sophie Kings: Ludmila

Ivan Shvedoff : Volodja

Mario Bandi: Anton

Hans Martin Stier: the Soviet general committed suicide

Clemans Schick: the German warrant officer

Mikhail Matveev: the grandfather of Vassili

Alexander Schwan: Vassili child

Lenn Kudrjawizki: the comrade in the train

Hendrik Arnst: the colonel under the shower

Claudius Freyer: aide-de-camp

Dietmar Nieder: the fair captain

Bernd Lambrecht: the captain with the lighter

Maxim Kovalevski: the gunner embusqué

Gennadi Vengerov: the Soviet warrant officer

daN Van Husen: the political officer

See too

detailed Card IMDb
Critical of film from a historical point of view
very critical Interpretation of a Russian historian on the historical quality of the film

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