Enemy at the Gates portrays the character Vasily Zaytsev, and is based off which book?
Enemy at the Gates Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 French-American war film written and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and based on William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book "", which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942 and 1943. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of sniper Vasily Zaytsev, a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. It includes a snipers' duel between Zaytsev and a "Wehrmacht" sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Болконский ) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace". He is the son of famed Russian general Nikolai Bolkonsky, who raises Andrei and his sister Maria Bolkonskaya on a remote estate. Andrei is best friends with Pierre Bezukhov. He is based on Tolstoy's cousin Prince Sergey Volkonsky, who was a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and later a Decembrist.