Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership—one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other planned by the British but ultimately conducted solely by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel in charge of tracking down Raine's group. The title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 Euro War film The Inglorious Bastards, though Tarantino's film is not a remake of it.
Plot
In 1941, SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French farmer Perrier LaPadite, suspecting that the LaPadites are hiding a Jewish family, the Dreyfuses, under their floorboards. LaPadite tearfully confirms this to spare his own family, and Landa has the hidden family shot, but allows Shosanna Dreyfus to escape.
Awards
Cast
- Alexander Fehling
- André Penvern
- Anne-Sophie Franck
- Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
- August Diehl
- B. J. Novak
- Bo Svenson
- Brad Pitt
- Christian Berkel
- Christian Brückner
- Christoph Waltz
- Cloris Leachman
- Daniel Brühl
- Denis Ménochet
- Diane Kruger
- Eli Roth
- Enzo G. Castellari
- Eva Löbau
- Gedeon Burkhard
- Gregory Nicotero
- Harvey Keitel
- Hilmar Eichhorn
- Jacky Ido
- Jana Pallaske
- Julie Dreyfus
- Ken Duken
- Léa Seydoux
- Ludger Pistor
- Martin Wuttke
- Mélanie Laurent
- Michael Bacall
- Michael Fassbender
- Michael Kranz
- Mike Myers
- Noémi Besedes
- Omar Doom
- Patrick Elias
- Paul Rust
- Quentin Tarantino
- Rainer Bock
- Richard Sammel
- Rod Taylor
- Sabrina Rattey
- Samm Levine
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Sebastian Hülk
- Sönke Möhring
- Sylvester Groth
- Til Schweiger
- Volker Michalowski
- Wilfried Hochholdinger