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Enemy at the Gates, a film with intense violence and mans inhumanity to man, tells the story of the triumph of love and knowledge set amidst the brutality of World War II Stalingrad.It is the winter of 1942, and a desperate, poorly equipped and demoralized Russian army faces the possibility of crushing pop by the might of the German blitzkrieg. A young nave soldier from the Urals, Vassily Zaitsev, arrives in Stalingrad where he is thrust into battle amid the needless slaughter of his fellow soldiers be the Germans and his own troops. To his shock, he is not given a discase to use during the attack. Instead, the men are paired together and one is given a rifle while the other is given extra ammunition. Vassily survives the first fierce assault and finds himself side-by-side with the political officer, Danilov. They are trapped among the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers behind the lines, and Vassilys gift as a sniper, homed to perfection from a childhood spent hunting wolves with his grandfather, is realized by Danilov when Vassily calmly and methodically kills five German soldiers. Returning to the intercourse safety of Russian controlled sector in the city, Danilov, a writer, glorifies Vassilys exploits in a newspaper article.So begins the unlikely friendship between the highly amend political officer Danilov and the barely literate Private Vassily Zaitsev. Vassily is then elevated to the status of hero when Danilov suggests to an angry and demanding Nikita Krusc...