Berlin film

[John Verity]

POUNDS 53M WAR EPIC TO BE SHOT IN BERLIN


THE most expensive film to be made in Europe begins filming in Berlin 
next year. 

Enemy at the Gates has a pounds 53million budget and stars Ed Harris, of 
Apollo 13 fame, Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes. It is the story of the 
doomed German attack on Stalingrad, Russia, in the Second World War. 

Filming of the battle using thousands of extras will take place at the 
Potsdam-Babelsberg studios in the re-adopted German capital in January 
An abandoned cement factory is to be blown up to serve as the rubble in 
which a million men struggled for supremacy during the real battle. 
Director Frenchman Jean-Jacques Arnaud said: "I want to make this so 
realistic that you will think you were there." 

Defeat at Stalingrad, now renamed Volgagrad, in 1942 was a turning point 
in the war against Hitler. 

The vanquished Germans lost 250,000 men and had a further 112,000 
soldiers captured. 

Only 6,000 of those ever made it back to Germany.  
 

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