Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Adventure, Drama, War |
Inglourious Basterds is a war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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 by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel who is tracking down Raine’s group and is connected to Shosanna’s past. The film’s title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari’s macaroni combat film The Inglorious Bastards (1978).
In 1941, SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite as to the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the area, the Dreyfus family. Landa suspects that they are hiding under the floor and, in exchange for the Germans agreeing to leave his family alone for the rest of the war, LaPadite reluctantly confirms it. Landa orders his SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards, killing all but one of the Dreyfus family; Shosanna, the daughter, escapes. As she runs, Landa decides to spare her.
In 1944, Lieutenant Aldo Raine of the First Special Service Force rounds up and recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the Basterds, a paramilitary unit formed to instill fear among the German soldiers by killing and scalping them. The Basterds include Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz and Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a rogue German soldier who murdered thirteen Gestapo officers…
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent
►Cast:
| Brad Pitt | … | Lt. Aldo Raine |
| Mélanie Laurent | … | Shosanna |
| Christoph Waltz | … | Col. Hans Landa |
| Eli Roth | … | Sgt. Donny Donowitz |
| Michael Fassbender | … | Lt. Archie Hicox |
| Diane Kruger | … | Bridget von Hammersmark |
| Daniel Brühl | … | Fredrick Zoller |
| Til Schweiger | … | Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz |
| Gedeon Burkhard | … | Cpl. Wilhelm Wicki |
| Jacky Ido | … | Marcel |
| B.J. Novak | … | Pfc. Smithson Utivich |
| Omar Doom | … | Pfc. Omar Ulmer |
| August Diehl | … | Major Hellstrom |
| Denis Ménochet | … | Perrier LaPadite |
| Sylvester Groth | … | Joseph Goebbels |
| Martin Wuttke | … | Hitler |
| Mike Myers | … | General Ed Fenech |
| Julie Dreyfus | … | Francesca Mondino |
| Richard Sammel | … | Sgt. Rachtman |
| Alexander Fehling | … | Master Sgt. Wilhelm / Pola Negri |
| Rod Taylor | … | Winston Churchill |
| Sönke Möhring | … | Pvt. Butz / Walter Frazer |
| Samm Levine | … | Pfc. Hirschberg |
| Paul Rust | … | Pfc. Andy Kagan |
| Michael Bacall | … | Pfc. Michael Zimmerman |
| Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey | … | German Soldier / Winnetou |
| Petra Hartung | … | German Female Soldier / Beethoven |
| Volker Michalowski | … | German Soldier / Edgar Wallace |
| Ken Duken | … | German Soldier / Mata Hari |
| Christian Berkel | … | Proprietor Eric |
| Anne-Sophie Franck | … | Mathilda |
| Léa Seydoux | … | Charlotte LaPadite |
| Tina Rodriguez | … | Julie LaPadite |
| Lena Friedrich | … | Suzanne LaPadite |
| Ludger Pistor | … | Cpt. Wolfgang |
| Jana Pallaske | … | Babette |
| Wolfgang Lindner | … | Herrman #1 |
| Michael Kranz | … | Herrman #3 |
| Rainer Bock | … | General Schonherr |
| André Penvern | … | Old French Veterinarian |
| Sebastian Hülk | … | Hellstrom’s Driver / Nazi Usher #1 |
| Buddy Joe Hooker | … | Gaspar |
| Carlos Fidel | … | Pfc. Simon Sakowitz |
| Christian Brückner | … | Kliest Voice (voice) |
| Hilmar Eichhorn | … | Emil Jannings |
| Patrick Elias | … | Jakob Dreyfus |
| Eva Löbau | … | Miriam Dreyfus |
| Salvadore Brandt | … | Bob Dreyfus |
| Jasper Linnewedel | … | Amos Dreyfus |
| Wilfried Hochholdinger | … | German Company Sgt. |
| Olivier Girard | … | Maxim’s Waiter |
| Michael Scheel | … | General Frank |
| Leo Plank | … | Motorcycle Rider #1 |
| Andreas Tietz | … | Motorcycle Rider #2 |
| Bo Svenson | … | American Colonel |
| Enzo G. Castellari | … | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Michael August | … | German Soldier |
| Bela B. | … | Usher #2 |
| Noémi Besedes | … | German Movie Star |
| Alex Boden | … | Military Attaché |
| Lisa Buckley | … | Movie Theatre Patron |
| Luke Burnyeat | … | German Soldier |
| Hélène Cardona | … | German Official (voice) |
| Guido Foehrweisser | … | SS Major |
| Jake Garber | … | German Soldier |
| Claudina Hoff ter Heide | … | German Filmstar |
| Samuel L. Jackson | … | Narrator (voice) |
| Harvey Keitel | … | OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) |
| Samantha Kelly | … | Usherette |
| Frederik Klaus | … | Soldier |
| Arnold Montey | … | SS Major |
| Andrew Napier | … | Nazi Theatre Attendee |
| Greg Nicotero | … | Gestapo Major |
| Niko Novick | … | Nazi Soldier |
| Aleksandrs Petukhovs | … | Soldier |
| Brendan Potter | … | Jimi Dean |
| Nikki Rapp | … | Usherette |
| Sabrina Rattey | … | German Civilian |
| Bea-Marie Rück | … | German Female Soldier |
| Daniela Schwerdt | … | Cinema Guest |
| Julia Smola | … | German Civilian Woman |
| Sam Stone | … | Rick – Ticket Seller |
| Quentin Tarantino | … | First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in ‘Pride of Nation’ |
| Scott Whyte | … | Movie Theatre Patron |
| Vitus Wieser | … | French Waiter |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia