Enemy at the Gates (French: L'Ennemi aux portes) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of sniper Vasily Zaytsev, a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. It includes a snipers' duel between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
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| Produced by | Jean-Jacques Annaud
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| Written by | Jean-Jacques Annaud
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| Production company | Mandalay Pictures Repérage Films |
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| Running time | 128 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $70,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $51,000,000 USD
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