I watched the movie Enemy at the Gates. The movie starts with the Battle of Stalingrad between the Germans and the Russians. The main character Vassili Zaitsev is sent on a suicidal charge against the German advance. He uses his skills as a marksman to ward off the German advance and becomes idolized by the people of Russia. For some time, Vassili continues to snipe German soldiers, crushing German morale and increasing the morale of the Russians.
In order to take action, the Germans deploy a sniper of their own to take out Vassili. On a number of missions, this new German sniper kills Vassili's sniper team members while Vassili narrowly escapes.
Vassili then gives a young boy food in order for him to pass false information to the German sniper in attempts to kill him. The German realizes the trickery of this young boy and hangs his body (after killing him) from a pole in order to lure Vassili.
This is where the love part comes in: Tania and Vassili love eachother while Danilov loves Tania but can't compete with Vassili and his national status. Danilov is escorting Tania to be escorted while Vassili is continually waitig for the German sniper to make a false move. Tania is hit by shrapnel during her evacuation and Danilov believes her to be dead. This upsets Danilov greatly and he sets out to find Vassili to take out his jealous rage. Danilov then finds Vassili during his stand-off with the German sniper and purposefully exposes himself in order to get the German to reveal his position. The German kills Danilov thinking he's Vassili, and as he goes to check the body he realizes the trick but is too late and Vassili then kills him. Some time later after the Russian victory over Stalingrad, Vassili finds Tania recovering in a field hospital.
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