Recommended viewing: “Enemy At the Gates”, with James Woods. Not for the squeamish, though.
Seen it although I believe you meant Ed Harris as Col Konig.
I remember Jude Law, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman and Ed Harris. I don’t remember James Woods in the movie.
A fantastic movie. But I’m pretty sure James Woods as not in it. Ed Harris played the German sniper.
Sorry, but “Enemy at the Gates” is only a middling movie that does NOT even come close to the full story about Stalingrad. In fact, its a cartoon-like simplification of that battle based on one small facet of it.
Instead, read the book “Enemy at the Gates”. Its pretty stunning. As much as I hate the Nazis, you can’t help but feel what the Germans in Stalingrad were going through as they were becoming ever more isolated and desperate. You know things are bad when you start bashing open the heads of your horses to eat their brains [yeah, that happened]. You know things are truly hopeless when soldiers don’t even bother to unload the few supply planes getting through.
Very few of the Germans who surrendered at Stalingrad ever made it home, but Paulus was treated quite well.
“Enemy at the Gates” is one of my favorite movies. Second only to “We Were Soldiers”. Both films depict war as the horror that it is. They should be required to show to college snowflakes.
James Woods was not in “Enemy at the Gates.” That was Jude Law.
While such stories are action packed, I prefer the 1993 GERMAN version of STALINGRAD released by FOX LORBER.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(1993_film)
Which reminds me, fifty years ago I saw an old sword and sandals movie at the theater, HERCULES, SAMSON & ULYSSES. It was on yesterday, on TCM and I remembered the evil Philistines all wore 20th Century German helmets. It was a hoot!