Inglorious Basterds
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 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, and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are faced against Hans Landa, an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation of hunting Jews. 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. Tarantino wrote the script in 1998, but struggled with the ending and chose instead to direct the two-part film Kill Bill. Wikipedia
Director | Quentin Tarantino |
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Produced by | Lawrence Bender |
Writer(s) | Quentin Tarantino |
Starring | Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Denis Ménochet, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Martin Wuttke |
Cinematography | Robert Richardson |
Edited by | Sally Menke |
Production, company | The Weinstein Company, Universal Pictures, A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg Film GmbH |
Distributed by | The Weinstein Company (United States), Universal Pictures (International) |
Released | May 20, 2009 (Cannes), August 20, 2009 (Germany), August 21, 2009 (United States) |
Running time | 153 minutes |
Country | United States, Germany |
Language | English, German, French |
Budget | $70 million |
Box office | $321.5 million |