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Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) 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 1942–1943.
A feature-length film, Enemy at the Gates (2001), starring Jude Law as Zaitsev, was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (1973), which includes a "snipers' duel" between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
Tania Chernova (1920? – c. 2015?) was a Russian-American woman known for serving in the Red Army as a sniper during World War II.She traveled to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia, but upon arriving learned that German invaders had already killed them.
König is mentioned both in Zaitsev's memoirs Notes of a Sniper (a "Major Konings", potentially SS) and William Craig's 1973 non-fiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. [4] According to Zaitsev, his duel with König took place over a period of three days in the ruins of Stalingrad . [ 1 ]
Enemy at the Gates; H. Hot Snow (film) R. Retribution (1969 film) S. Soldiers (film) Stalingrad (1943 film) Stalingrad (1990 film) Stalingrad (1993 film) Stalingrad ...
Hot Snow a 1972 Soviet film about Soviet artillery during Operation Winter Storm; Stalingrad, a 1989 two-part film directed by Yuri Ozerov; Stalingrad, a 1993 German film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier; Enemy at the Gates, a 2001 Franco-British film which dramatized and in some cases fictionalized elements of real exploits by sniper Vasily Zaytsev.
A Ukrainian sniper claims to have broken the world record by killing a Russian soldier almost 2.5 miles away, with a custom rifle called ‘Lord of the Horizon’.. The previous record was held by ...
Most Soviet World War II snipers carried a combat load of 120 rifle cartridges in the field. [1] During World War II, 428,335 individuals, including partisans, are believed to have received Red Army sniper training, and of those 9,534 obtained higher-level qualifications. [2] Unlike the militaries of other states, these snipers could be men or ...