They misrepresented Khrushchev.

Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2006)

Historical epics usually make for good movies, but "Enemy at the Gates" has a few problems. First and foremost is their portrayal of Nikita Khrushchev (Bob Hoskins). They cast him as a pure Stalinist, when in reality he was famous for "de-Stalinizing" the Soviet Union.
As for Vasiliy Zaitsev (Jude Law), Maj. Konig (Ed Harris), Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz), and Commissar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), I guess that everything that I know about him I learned from this movie. I think that someone needs to make a movie about the siege of Leningrad (I spent this past semester in St. Petersburg and went to a museum about the siege).