Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسیहिन्दीไทย한국어中文日本語
Inglourious Basterds
WorkQ153723· pop 80· linked from 762 articles

Inglourious Basterds

Sign in to save

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including 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 converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

OverviewAI-generated

*Inglourious Basterds* is a 2009 war, drama, adventure, and comedy film directed and written by Quentin Tarantino. The production was produced by Lawrence Bender and Tarantino, with cinematography by Robert Richardson and editing by Sally Menke. The cast includes Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, and Michael Fassbender, while Samuel L. Jackson serves as the narrator. The film was produced by The Weinstein Company, A Band Apart, Universal Pictures, and Babelsberg Studio, and distributed by Netflix. It is a co-production between Germany and the United States, filmed in Berlin, Germany, and Paris.

The movie runs for 153 minutes and features dialogue in English, German, French, and Italian. Its main subjects are World War II and revenge. The film received a budget of 70,000,000 and generated revenue of 321,457,747. It was released on August 2, 2009, with other publication dates listed as May 20, 2009, August 20, 2009, and August 21, 2009.

*Inglourious Basterds* received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was named to the National Board of Review Top Ten Films. It was also nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. The film holds an IMDb rating of 8.4 based on 1,789,096 votes and a TMDb vote average of 8.217 from 24,054 votes.

Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, IMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Film · TMDB

8.2

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Released: 2009-08-02153 minDir: Quentin TarantinoDrama, Thriller, WarBudget: $70.0MBox office: $321M
▶ Watch trailerStream on: Peacock Premium, YouTube TV, Peacock Premium Plus

Cast

  • Brad Pitt as LT. Aldo Raine
  • Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna
  • Christoph Waltz as COL. Hans Landa
  • Eli Roth as SGT. Donny Donowitz
  • Michael Fassbender as LT. Archie Hicox
  • Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark

Themes

  • guerrilla warfare
  • paris, france
  • self sacrifice
  • world war ii
  • jew persecution
  • german occupation of france
  • resistance fighter
  • nazism
  • anti-fascism
  • excited

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Ratings

IMDb

8.4/10

1,789,096 votes

Year
2009
Runtime
153 min
Genres
Drama, War

via IMDb

Wikipedia views (30d)

141,153 total

via Wikimedia Pageviews API

~34 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including 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 converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

The title (but not the story) was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 Euro War film The Inglorious Bastards, but deliberately misspelled as "a Basquiat-esque touch". Tarantino wrote the script in 1998, but struggled with the ending and chose instead to direct the two-part film Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007, Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. A co-production between the United States and Germany, the film began principal photography in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany and France with a $70 million production budget.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inglourious Basterds” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (21)

Available in 70 languages

Show 51 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0