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Quentin Tarantino (written by)
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Release Date:
21 August 2009 (USA) more
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Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France... more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 19 wins & 19 nominations more
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Cast

  (in credits order)

Brad Pitt ... Lt. Aldo Raine

Mélanie Laurent ... Shosanna Dreyfus

Christoph Waltz ... Col. Hans Landa

Eli Roth ... Sgt. Donny Donowitz
Michael Fassbender ... Lt. Archie Hicox

Diane Kruger ... Bridget von Hammersmark

Daniel Brühl ... Pvt 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 Dieter Hellstrom

Denis Menochet ... Perrier LaPadite
Sylvester Groth ... Joseph Goebbels
Martin Wuttke ... Adolf Hitler

Mike Myers ... General Ed Fenech

Julie Dreyfus ... Francesca Mondino

Richard Sammel ... Sgt. Werner Rachtman
Alexander Fehling ... Master Sgt. Wilhelm / Pola Negri
Rod Taylor ... Winston Churchill
Soenke Möhring ... Pvt. Butz / Walter Frazer (as Sönke Möhring)

Samm Levine ... PFC Gerold 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 (as Zack Volker Michalowski)

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)
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 ... German General in cinema
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Maggie Cheung ... Madame Ada Mimieux (scenes deleted)

Cloris Leachman ... Mrs. Himmelstein (scenes deleted)
Michael August ... German Soldier (uncredited)

Noemi Besedes ... German movie star (uncredited)
Alex Boden ... Military Attaché (uncredited)
Bela B. Felsenheimer ... Usher #2 (uncredited)

Guido Föhrweißer ... SS Major (uncredited)
Jake Garber ... German soldier (uncredited)

Samuel L. Jackson ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Harvey Keitel ... OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (uncredited) (voice) (unconfirmed)

Andrew Napier ... Theatre Attendee (uncredited)
Gregory Nicotero ... Gestapo Major (uncredited)
Aleksandrs Petukhovs ... Soldier (uncredited)

Sabrina Rattey ... German Civilian (uncredited)
Anastasia Schifler ... Marie (uncredited)

Vitus Wieser ... French Waiter (uncredited)
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Directed by
Quentin Tarantino 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Quentin Tarantino  written by

Produced by
Lawrence Bender .... producer
William Paul Clark .... associate producer
Christoph Fisser .... co-producer
Henning Molfenter .... co-producer
Bruce Moriarty .... associate producer
Lloyd Phillips .... executive producer
Pilar Savone .... associate producer
Erica Steinberg .... executive producer
Bob Weinstein .... executive producer
Harvey Weinstein .... executive producer
Charlie Woebcken .... co-producer (as Carl L. Woebcken)
 
Cinematography by
Robert Richardson (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
Sally Menke 
 
Casting by
Simone Bär 
Olivier Carbone 
Jenny Jue 
Johanna Ray 
 
Production Design by
David Wasco 
 
Art Direction by
Marco Bittner Rosser 
Stephan O. Gessler 
Sebastian T. Krawinkel (supervising art director)
Andreas Olshausen 
David Scheunemann 
Steve Summersgill 
Bettina von den Steinen 
 
Set Decoration by
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco 
 
Costume Design by
Anna B. Sheppard 
 
Makeup Department
Tamar Aviv .... special makeup effects assistant: KNB EFX Group Inc.
Howard Berger .... special makeup effects coordinator
Jake Garber .... key on-set makeup effects artist
Pamela Grujic .... hair stylist
Pamela Grujic .... key makeup artist
Grady Holder .... special makeup effects artist: K.N.B. EFX Group
Susanne Kasper .... makeup artist
Emanuel Millar .... hair department head
Gregory Nicotero .... key special makeup effects supervisor
Valeska Schitthelm .... additional hair stylist
Valeska Schitthelm .... additional makeup artist
Jörn Seifert .... special makeup effects assistant: KNB EFX Group Inc.
Heba Thorisdottir .... makeup department head
Estelle Tolstoukine .... additional hair stylist
Khanh Trance .... hair special effects: KNB EFX Group
Camille Calvet .... special makeup effects artist for Mike Myers (uncredited)
 
Production Management
Tina Anderson .... post-production supervisor
Christopher Berg .... post-production supervisor: Germany
Gilles Castera .... production manager: France
Philipp Klausing .... unit manager
Arno Neubauer .... production manager: splinter unit
Michael Scheel .... unit production manager
Gregor Wilson .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tobias Asam .... second assistant director: splinter unit
Delphine Bertrand .... assistant director: France
Jerome Borenstein .... first assistant director: France
William Paul Clark .... first assistant director
Carlos Fidel .... second assistant director
Mara Fiedler .... trainee assistant director
Scott Kirby .... first assistant director: splinter unit
Ariane Lacan .... second assistant director: France
Guilhem Malgoire .... third assistant director
Jill Moriarty .... second second assistant director
Miguel Angelo Pate .... third assistant director
Julien Petit .... assistant director: France
Gabriel Roth .... additional director (segment "Nation's Pride")
 
Art Department
Friederike Beckert .... store manager
Robert Blasi .... art department coordinator
Simon-Julien Boucherie .... property master
Stéphane Cressend .... assistant art director
Birka Czassny .... construction secretary
Emmanuel Delis .... set decorator: France
Axel Eichhorst .... concept artist
Sabine Engelberg .... set designer
Enzo Enzel .... stand-by painter
David R. Evans .... graphic designer
Michael Fissneider .... set designer
Alex Friedrich .... prop maker
Hélène Gourdin Doherty .... set decoration assistant
Dierk Grahlow .... construction manager
Anne Gramlich .... art department runner
Sebastian Hanusch .... assistant stand-by props
Ingeborg Heinemann .... assistant set decorator
Leif Heanzo Hendel .... props concept artist
Andreas Horstmann .... additional set decoration buyer
Jan Hülpüsch .... graphic artist: Schein Berlin
Alexis Imbert .... props
Jan Jericho .... graphic artist
Robert Krüger .... hod painter
Oliver Kuhlmann .... stand-by props chargehand
Liliana Lambriev .... graphic artist: Schein Berlin
Robert Makolies .... plaster sculptor
Stefan Mentz .... stand-by props production assistant
Johanna Muench .... modelmaker
Benjamin Palmer .... supervising model maker
Daniel Porsdorf .... photographer: Schein Berlin
Stephanie Rass .... set designer
Melanie Reichert .... construction buyer
Melanie Reichert .... construction secretary
Michelle Rose .... props coordinator
Sascha Strutz .... prop buyer
Steve Summersgill .... set designer
Otu Tetteh .... props
Alwara Thaler .... set decoration shopper
Jacob von Dohnanyi .... propmaker
Joey Weber .... set decoration buyer
Simon Weisse .... model maker
Oliver Wolter .... art department assistant
 
Sound Department
Robert Althoff .... mix technician
Paul Aulicino .... sound editor
Gregg Baxter .... supervising adr editor
Harry Cohen .... sound designer
Benjamin Dunker .... utility sound technician
Martin Gleitze .... sound utility
Tom Hartig .... boom operator
Michael Keller .... sound effects editor
Tony Lamberti .... sound re-recording mixer
Michael Minkler .... sound re-recording mixer
James Moriana .... foley artist
Nancy Nugent .... dialogue editor
Margit Pfeiffer .... dialogue supervisor
Carsten Richter .... foley artist: nation's pride
Steve Schatz .... sound mixing recordist
Ann Scibelli .... sound designer
Wylie Stateman .... supervising sound editor
Mark Ulano .... production sound mixer
Brett Voss .... foley mixer
Hanse Warns .... foley mixer: nation's pride
Jeffrey Wilhoit .... foley artist
David Young .... post sound engineer
Toby Cohen .... additional sound (uncredited)
 
Special Effects by
Herbert Blank .... special effects foreman
Nils Bleeck .... special effects technician: dailies
Jaroslav Bucek .... special effects technician
Tom Christ .... special effects technician
James Cowley .... special effects technician: dailies
Gerd Feuchter .... special effects coordinator
Gerd Feuchter .... special effects supervisor
Christoph Gartlacher .... special effects technician
Markus Geiger .... special effects foreman
Joe Giles .... special effects technician: mold department, K.N.B. Effects Group
Rolf Hanke .... accountant: special effects
Andreas Herberg .... special effects technician
Till Hertrich .... special effects foreman
Wolfgang Higler .... special effects foreman
Sylvio Lienert .... special effects assistant
Michael Luppino .... special effects foreman
Klaus Mielich .... special effects technical & crew coordinator
Uli Nefzer .... special effects coordinator
Uli Nefzer .... special effects supervisor
Gonzalo Outeda Giménez .... special effects senior technician
Monty Ploch .... special effects assistant
Claudius Rauch .... special effects technician
Bernd Rautenberg .... first armourer
Michael Rudnik .... special effects senior technician
Marcus Schmidt .... special effects senior pyrotechnician
Jens Schmiedel .... special effects senior technician
Thomas Thiele .... special effects senior technician
Jürgen Thiel .... special effects senior technician
Roland Weder .... special effects technician
Lutz Zeidler .... armourer: dailies
 
Visual Effects by
Elika Burns .... roto/paint supervisor: CIS Hollywo
Patrick Clancey .... digital opticals
Scott Crafford .... paint and rotoscope artist: CIS Hollywood
Michael Dillon .... digital intermediate assistant producer
Christopher Dusendschon .... digital imaging supervisor: iO FILM
John Dykstra .... visual effects designer
Kelly Fischer .... compositor: CIS Hollywood
Mathias Frodin .... compositor: CIS Hollywood
Mathias Frodin .... digital compositor
Alex Gitler .... compositor: CIS Hollywood
Alex Gitler .... digital compositor
Alex Gitler .... visual effects: CIS Hollywood
Brian Hanable .... digital effects compositor: Pacific Title
Joe Henke .... digital effects supervisor: CIS Hollywood
Heather Elisa Hill .... visual effects project manager: CIS Hollywood
Mark Justison .... junior compositor: CIS Hollywood
Gregory D. Liegey .... visual effects supervisor: CIS Hollywood
Gregory D. Liegey .... visual effects supervisor: CIS Visual Effects Group
Rodney Montague .... visual effects producer
Viktor Muller .... visual effects supervisor
James P. Noon .... tracking
Caleb Owens .... cg artist: CIS Hollywood
Chris Ryan .... cg supervisor: CIS Hollywood
Aaron Schultz .... cg artist: CIS Hollywood
Rasha Shalaby .... compositor: CIS Hollywood
Ilona Vovchyk .... model painter
Xye .... tracking
Nina Yoon .... paint & roto artist
Nina Yoon .... paint & rotoscoping artist: CIS Hollywood
Matt Ashton .... senior systems: CIS Hollywood (uncredited)
Donald Fly .... general manager: CIS Group (uncredited)
Amy Garback .... effects liaison: CIS Hollywood (uncredited)
Brian Holmes .... systems engineer: CIS Hollywood (uncredited)
Katie Miller .... coordinator assistant: CIS Hollywood (uncredited)
Robert Minsk .... systems: CIS Hollywood (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Jörg Annen .... stunt double
Zoe Bell .... stunt double
Zoe Bell .... stunts
Jan Böhme .... stunt double
Jeffrey J. Dashnaw .... stunt coordinator (as Jeff Dashnaw)
Bud Davis .... stunt coordinator
Nicolas de Pruyssenaere .... stunt performer
Christian Döbler .... stunt performer
Michael Duessel .... stunt actor
Ferdinand Fischer .... stunt performer
Guido Föhrweißer .... stunt performer
Oliver Fritsche .... stunt performer
Martin Goeres .... stunt double
Udo Harnach .... stunt performer
Christian Hebenstreit .... stunts
Thomas Heubeck .... stunts
Timo Honsa .... stunt performer
Alessija Lause .... stunt performer
Marco Maas .... stunt performer
Mike Möller .... stunts
Alexandra Nazahn .... stunts
Christian Petersson .... stunt performer
Bernd Pietsch .... stunt performer
Wolfgang Raach .... stunt performer
Swen Raschka .... stunt performer
Antje Rau .... stunt coordinator (as Antje 'Angie' Rau)
Rene Schobes .... stunts
Alexander Schröder .... stunt performer
Wolfgang Stegemann .... stunt performer
Ralf Tillmann .... stunt performer
Vladimir Vilanov .... stunt double
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Dieter Bähr .... key grip
Martin Bartels .... video assist operator: splinter unit, assistant video operator: main unit
Mithat Baskan .... electrician
Jean-François Drigeard .... gaffer: Paris
François Duhamel .... still photographer
Lester Dunton .... vfx director of photography
Vanessa Guez .... additional second assistant camera
Oliver Haas .... best boy lighting
Eddie Handschak .... video operator: main unit
Rafael Jeneral .... second assistant camera: splinter unit
Daniel Jopp .... lighting technician
Sebastian Meuschel .... steadicam operator
Matthias Pilz .... central loader
Helmut Prein .... gaffer
Christian Scheibe .... dolly grip: "b" camera
Axel Scholz .... electrician
Leah Striker .... camera operator: splinter unit
Gregor Tavenner .... key first assistant camera
Christian Wehrle .... key video assist
Jörg Widmer .... director of photography: splinter unit
 
Casting Department
Aurélie Avram .... extras casting
Simone Bär .... casting: Germany
Salvadore Brandt .... first extras casting assistant
Olivier Carbone .... casting: France
Johanna Ragwitz .... extras casting
Mathilde Snodgrass .... casting assistant
Patrick Winkler .... extras casting assistant
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Daniela Backes .... principal set costumer
Daryl Bristow .... costume supervisor
Brigitte Friedländer-Rodriguez .... wardrobe supervisor (as Brigitte Rodriguez)
Brita Hofmann .... costume textile artist
Tina-Jane Krohn .... costumer
Gary Lane .... military costumes supervisor
Anna Isabell Logen .... personal dresser: Brad Pitt
Peter Paul .... wardrobe master
Sonia Inés Rocha .... assistant textile artist
John Rowe .... military costumer
Meike Schlegel .... assistant costume designer
Anja Vesterling .... costume textile artist
Michelle Wickland .... stunt & principal costumer
Jeanette Apel .... dress pattern maker (uncredited)
 
Editorial Department
Toska Baltruschat .... first assistant editor
Sheryl Benko .... post-production coordinator
Alexander Boldt .... second assistant editor
Etienne Boussac .... first assistant editor
Gary Burritt .... negative cutter
Joe D'Augustine .... additional editor
Julia Dupuis .... second assistant editor
Julie Garces .... assistant editor: Avid
Evan Henke .... first assistant editor
Erin Michelle Hopkins .... assistant editor
Stephanie Johnson .... first assistant editor
Kai Lamberton .... third assistant editor
Yvan Lucas .... colorist: Efilm
Traudl Nicholson .... color timer
Jim Passon .... color timer (Deluxe)
Tom Reiser .... colorist assist: Efilm
Denise Sadighi .... German subtitle assistant/translator
Matthew Sakata .... post-production assistant
Boris Schaarschmidt .... German subtitle assistant/translator
Adam M. Weber .... apprentice editor
Lisa Tutunjian .... digital intermediate editor (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Mary Ramos .... music supervisor
Jim Schultz .... music editor
 
Transportation Department
Jalal Aqdim .... picture car assistant coordinator: paris unit
Maxime Couteret .... transportation captain
Tom Ehrhardt .... picture car coordinator
Dennis Erdmann .... production driver
Marco Fischer .... truck wrangler
Florian Haeger .... driver: cast
Charles Heidet .... picture car coordinator: Paris Unit
Daniel Huhn .... driver: cast
Steffen Knabe .... production driver
Andreas Korpel .... additional truck driver: Paris
Erich Kraus .... driver: cast
Oliver Kueper .... transportation coordinator
Matthias Langwich .... driver
Jérôme Servant .... transportation coordinator: France
Olivier Suffert .... driver: Paris
Silke Werner .... driver: cast
Alexandre Thiery .... driver: Paris (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Markus Albrecht .... military consultant
Melissa Altman .... assistant: Erica Steinberg
Robyn Altman .... assistant: Lloyd Phillips
Segolene Amice .... production coordinator: France
Markus Bensch .... production executive
Penelope Bischoff .... production secretary: France
Alex Boden .... researcher
Mathias Braun .... assistant location manager: Ottendorf
Gero Brugmann .... legal counsel (as Dr. Gero Brugmann)
Nina Büttner .... payroll accountant
Will Casey .... unit publicist
Simon Daniel .... location assistant
Julia Dege .... production assistant
Sabrina Donati .... production associate: Casting
Guido Fischer .... assistant location manager
Anne C. Ford .... production controller
Frédéric Greene .... production accountant: france
Klaus Große Darrelmann .... location manager
Paloma Guridi .... utility stand-in: female
Frederic Heidorn .... stand in/double
RoJeanne Herbel .... assistant post-production accountant
Robert Hoehn .... production assistant
Leah Holmes .... post production accountant
Kenneth Hunter .... architectural research photographer: Los Angeles
Yann Jouannic .... location assistant: Paris
Michael Justice .... intern
Arnaud Kaiser .... location manager
Ellie Kemps .... travel coordinator
Mun Ju Kim .... cashier
Andreas Kispert .... set manager
Ayuko Koresawa .... script: splinter unit
Linda Ky .... shipping coordinator
Thomas Lauterkorn .... location scout
Ronald J. Levin .... production legal
Silvia Lindner .... production coordinator
Bianca Makarewicz .... publicist
Gabriel Mamruth .... payroll accountant
Jan R. Martin .... assistant production coordinator
Paul Melzow .... production assistant
Peti Misaila .... housing coordinator
Tim Monich .... dialect coach
Matthias Nerlich .... crowd marshall
Antonia Olivares .... set production assistant
David Pieper .... location assistant
Jan Proppe .... set production assistant
Justine Raczkiewicz .... assistant to production executive
Loredana Rehekampff (production assistant
Eli Roth .... director: "Nation's Pride"
Steve Sauthoff .... set production assistant
Carole Schmidlin .... set production assistant
Lena Schmigalla .... assistant accountant
Johannes Schwerdt .... assistant accountant
Oneil Sharma .... key production assistant
Tommy Simpson .... production assistant
Tina Steffan .... assistant: Quentin Tarantino
Christina Syring .... production secretary
Mathieu Turi .... set production assistant
Clemens von Tubeuf .... stand in/double
Constanze Waechter .... utility stand-in: female
Nicolas Walier .... stand in/double
Nicolas Walier .... stand-in
Anne Wilson .... key assistant production accountant
Mario Wittmann .... key set production assistant
Eike Wolf .... production publicist
Katrin Wöller .... craft service person
Gerold Wunstel .... adr artist
Anja Wüstefeld .... location coordinator
Ugur Yildirim .... mac support
Sonja B. Zimmer .... production executive
Wassili Zygouris .... projectionist supervisor
Michael Herbert .... intern (uncredited)
Justine Raczkiewicz .... assistant: production executive (uncredited)
 
Thanks
Enzo G. Castellari .... thanks
John Milius .... thanks
Barry Primus .... very special thanks
Bill Roth .... special thanks
Tom Tykwer .... acknowledgment: German Translation quality assurance
 

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Also Known As:
Inglorious Bastards (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.
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153 min
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Cameo: [Bela B. Felsenheimer]The drummer of the German punk band "Die Ärzte" (the doctors) appears as an usher at the movie premiere. Bela B. is known to be a huge fan of horror and Tarantino movies. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Near the beginning of the film, when Hans Landa is talking to Perrier LaPadite, there is a moth that visibly lands on Landa's glass and climbs to the top of it. When the camera angle changes, the moth is gone. more
Quotes:
Col. Hans Landa: Do you control the nicknames your enemies bestow on you? 'Aldo the Apache' and 'The Little Man'?
Pfc. Smithson Utivich: What do you mean, 'The Little Man'?
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59 out of 93 people found the following comment useful.
A Rip Roaring Yarn, 7 October 2009
8/10
Author: Ubaldo Martinez from United States

An fun, engrossing, beautifully crafted piece of nonsense, the likes of which we hadn't seen in a long long time. The silliness of the story is marvelously camouflaged with great dialogue and some superb performances. Christoph Waltz must be thinking already about his acceptance speech. What a performance! The civilized monster, polyglot, refined and deadly. He gets us going from the first, sensational scene. Brad Pitt is also wonderful. Was he putting a Mussolinni chin while impersonating (hilariously) an Italian? I thought so. His character's name sounds like Aldo Ray and I'm sure that's no accident. The film is full of movie references. Another character is named Fenek, as an homage to his 1970's sexpot, Edwige Fenech. What is already one of Tarantino's trademarks is his sure step along the most immediately recognizable bits of pop culture. He's clearly not a cultured man but a pop expert, king in a world where people get their news from TV, don't reed, other than magazines and comics, etc. That's how it happens, to be in the right place at the right time. For better or worse this are Tarantino times.

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