![]() ![]() As both entertainment and a historical portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad, the film fell far short of its potential. That said, I found Enemy at the Gates terribly disappointing. ![]() If it helps even a little to bring the scale and importance of the Soviet-German clash home to Western audiences, the film will right a great historical wrong: the terrible ignorance within the Western public of how central the Eastern Front was to the outcome of World War II. If even one in one hundred of those who see the film is inspired to pick up William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates or any other book on the war in the east, then director and co-writer Jean-Jacques Annaud has done a great service to those who research and teach Soviet history. ![]() The film Enemy at the Gates is a good thing for the study of the Eastern Front during World War II. ![]()
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