Additional information for Inglourious Basterds, which has a domestic theatrical release set for August 21, 2009. The film is being distributed by The Weinstein Company and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
R
USA
18
UK
R16
New Zealand
18
Ireland
15
Sweden
K-15
Finland
MA
Australia
16
Germany
14A
Canada
16
Netherlands
15
Norway
M18
Singapore
M/16
Portugal
-12
France
III
Hong Kong
18
South Korea
16
Iceland
R15+
Japan
16
Argentina
18
Hungary
18
Brazil
TE
Chile
VM14
Italy
13
Spain
A
India
16LV
South Africa
18PL
Malaysia
May 20, 2009
France
July 28, 2009
Germany
July 29, 2009
Canada
August 2, 2009
Australia
August 19, 2009
Belgium
August 19, 2009
France
August 19, 2009
UK
August 20, 2009
Australia
August 20, 2009
Germany
August 20, 2009
Greece
August 20, 2009
Hong Kong
August 20, 2009
Hungary
August 20, 2009
Kazakhstan
August 20, 2009
New Zealand
August 20, 2009
Russia
August 20, 2009
Slovenia
August 20, 2009
Ukraine
August 21, 2009
Austria
August 21, 2009
Canada
August 21, 2009
Estonia
August 21, 2009
Netherlands
August 21, 2009
Norway
August 21, 2009
Sweden
August 21, 2009
Taiwan
August 21, 2009
Turkey
August 21, 2009
USA
August 26, 2009
Iceland
August 27, 2009
Czech Republic
August 27, 2009
Netherlands
August 27, 2009
Portugal
August 27, 2009
Slovakia
August 28, 2009
Bulgaria
August 28, 2009
Denmark
August 28, 2009
Lithuania
August 30, 2009
Finland
August 31, 2009
Argentina
September 3, 2009
Argentina
September 4, 2009
Finland
September 4, 2009
Romania
September 11, 2009
Poland
September 17, 2009
Israel
September 17, 2009
Singapore
September 18, 2009
Spain
September 20, 2009
Kuwait
October 2, 2009
India
October 2, 2009
Italy
October 4, 2009
Mexico
October 8, 2009
Brazil
October 9, 2009
Brazil
October 9, 2009
Mexico
October 9, 2009
Venezuela
October 14, 2009
Egypt
October 16, 2009
Indonesia
October 16, 2009
Panama
October 16, 2009
Philippines
October 29, 2009
South Korea
October 30, 2009
Colombia
November 6, 2009
Uruguay
November 20, 2009
Japan
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
You haven't seen war untill you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.
If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds
Mélanie Laurent Is A Basterd
An Inglorious, Uproarious Thrill-Ride of Vengeance.
"We're in the Nazi killin' business and cousin, business is a-boomin'."
A basterd's work is never done.
Brad Pitt Is A Basterd
"Can you Americans speak any other language than English?"
"I love my unofficial title, precisely because I have earned it."
"...because, Marcel, my sweet, we're going to make a film, just for the Nazis."
Diane Kruger Is A Basterd
Til Schweiger Is A Basterd
Eli Roth Is A Basterd
*** Serious spoiler alert - inlining it in case you missed it above ***
The main theme of the film is revenge. The film is set in an alternate history of the Second World War in which the entire top leadership of Nazi Germany, namely Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Bormann attend a film premiere in Paris celebrating the exploits of a German sniper who had managed to kill 300 American soldiers in Italy. Most of the film's timeframe is set in early June 1944, after the D-Day landings but before the liberation of Paris.
The film tracks the separate attempts to kill Hitler by two disparate forces, one being the "Basterds", a motley crew of Jewish American soldiers out for revenge against the Nazis. The Basterds have a modus operandi whereby each man must cut off the scalp of a dead Nazi soldier, with orders to get 100 scalps each. The Basterds allow one German soldier to survive each incident so as to spread the news of the terror of their attacks. However, the Basterds carve a swastika into the forehead of that German. The other force concerns Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), the only survivor of a Jewish family killed by the Jew Hunter, who plots her own revenge on the Nazis. The Basterds and Shosanna remain unaware of each other throughout the film.
The film is divided into 5 chapters 1. Once Upon a TimeIn Nazi Occupied France 1941. 2. Inglourious Basterds. 3. German Nights in Paris. 4. Operation Kino. 5. Revenge of the Giant Face.
Chapter One: "Once Upon a Time .......... In Nazi Occupied France (1941)" The film opens in 1941 with Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) of the Waffen-SS, proudly known as the "Jew Hunter", interrogating Perrier LaPadite (Denis Menochet), a French dairy farmer, over rumours that he had been hiding a Jewish family. By dropping a subtle hint about whether or not to leave LaPadite's family alone in the future, Landa manages to break down LaPadite and locates the hiding place of the Jews underneath the floorboards. He orders his soldiers to fire into the floorboards, killing all but the teenage Shosanna.
Chapter Two: "Inglourious Basterds" The second chapter is set in 1944 prior to the Allied invasion of France. It begins with Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) addressing in formation his newly formed 8 man Jewish-American commando unit. He proceeds to explain to them, in drill sergeant style, that they will be dropped behind enemy lines to cause havoc to all Nazi soldiers they come across with the goal of bringing fear into the heart of the enemy. He further explains to them that the normal standards of military conduct will not apply because the Nazis themselves have no humanity and are not deserving of any humanity in return. He mentions that he has Apache blood running through his veins and that all the man in his command owes him 100 Nazi scalps. We are then juxtaposed to a scene showing us Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke) angrily ridiculing two of his military command for not be able to deal with the Basterds and how the activity of the Basterds is having a negative effect upon his fighting men. Hitler then interviews Private Butz (Soenke Möhring )who was recently taken prisoner by the Basterds. As Butz responds to Hitlers questions we see Butzs ordeal via flashbacks beginning with Lt. Raines interview of another survivor Sgt. Werner Rachtman (Richard Sammel). Lt. Raine threatens him with death if he does not disclose the whereabouts of another Nazi patrol that is near at hand. Werner is adamant that he will not provide information that could possibly harm other German soldiers and Lt. Raine then calls Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth), known as the Bear Jew to beat Sgt. Rachtman to death with a baseball bat which he proceeds to do. Lt. Raine then interrogates Private Butz with the help of Cpl.Willem Wicki (Gideon Burkhard)who acts as interpreter. Private Butz quickly provides the Basterds with all they need to know after which Lt. Raine lets Private Butz go but not before doing so carves a swastika in Butzs forehead with his own customized mountain man Bowie knife. Swastika carving is Lt. Raines trademark. The scene ends with Sgt. Donowitz commenting to Lt. Raine that he is becoming quite good at carving swastikas. Lt. Raine responds: You know how you get to Carnegie Hall dont ya. Practice.
Chapter Three: "German Nights in Paris" Four years later, by 1944, Shosanna has assumed the identity of "Emmanuelle Mimieux". How she manages to do so is not revealed. She has also become the proprietress of a cinema, which is chosen by Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), a spotlight-hungry sniper-turned-actor whose exploits are celebrated in the Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (A Nation's Pride), as the setting for the film premiere. He is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Goebbels to hold the premiere in her cinema. Shosanna does not reciprocate Zoller's feelings.
Shosanna realizes that the presence of so many high ranking Nazi officials and officers provides an excellent opportunity for revenge. She resolves to burn down her cinema using the massive quantities of flammable nitrate film in her storage rooms during the premiere and makes a fourth reel in which she tells the Nazis present of her Jewish identity and revenge.
Chapter Four: "Operation Kino" In the meantime, the British have also learned of the Nazi leadership's plan to attend the premiere and dispatch a British officer, Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), to Paris to lead an attack on the cinema with the aid of the "Basterds" and a German double agent, an actress by the name of Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger).
Hammersmark arranges to meet Hicox and the Basterds in the basement of a French tavern. Unbeknown to her, however, the night of the rendezvous is also the occasion of a German staff sergeant (Alexander Fehling) celebrating the birth of his son with his soldier comrades. One of the German soldiers present strikes up a conversation with Hicox and notices that his accent is "odd". An SS officer (August Diehl) who is in the tavern as well also notices that odd accent. When Hicox gives the wrong three fingered order for whiskies (without using his thumb, a traditional German gesture), the SS officer realizes their deception. A firefight breaks out in which the British officer and two of the "Basterds" are killed as is everyone in the tavern except Hammersmark, who is wounded in her left leg.
Chapter Five: "Revenge of the Giant Face" Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a U.S. Army second lieutenant in the First Special Service Force [7] and the commanding officer of the Basterds, interrogates Hammersmark and decides to continue the operation against the cinema under the guise of Italians as suicide bombers. Colonel Landa, now an SD officer, is able to retrieve one of Hammersmark's shoes from the scene of the firefight at the tavern and also an autographed napkin which Hammersmark had signed for the staff sergeant's son. He approaches Hammersmark and Raine in the cinema lobby and is able to easily see through their disguises, as none, even Raine, can speak any Italian or German. He questions Hammersmark alone and makes her try on the shoe he had retrieved from the tavern. It is a perfect fit. He violently strangles her to death as a traitor, and orders the arrest of Raine. As Raine is driven off in a truck, he discovers one of his men, Private Utivich (B.J. Novak), has also been captured and is in the truck with him.
In the closing stages of the film Quentin Tarantino sets the quirks which show that the film is in an alternative universe. Landa reveals himself to be a turncoat. While speaking with Raine and Utivich, he tells them that four major Nazi leaders must all be killed to end the war immediately. They are all attending Nation's Pride, and he is prepared to let the assassination continue-- for a price. He has no intention of helping end the war only to be tried by a Jewish tribunal for war crimes and end up facing the gallows. In order to help end the war, he wants to make a deal, one Raine cannot authorize, but his commanding officer (Harvey Keitel) can. Landa has his radio operator help Raine reach his general, where Landa states the terms of his deal-- he wants full military pension and benefits under his current rank, a medal of honor for everyone involved in the operation, American citizenship and a home on Nantucket Island. He also reveals that he had planted Raine's stick of dynamite in Hitler's box at the cinema, meaning that there are now three attempts against Hitler's life. Raine is placed on the radio and his general tells him that Landa and his radio operator will drive him and Utivich in a truck to American lines, then surrender to them, whereupon Raine will drive the truck to base and bring Landa and the operator to him for debriefing.
Meanwhile, during the showing of Stolz der Nation, Shosanna and her assistant (and lover) Marcel (Jacky Ido) are manning the projection booth when he tells her it is time. He needs to lock the auditorium and go behind the screen. As Marcel makes his way toward the auditorium, two of the Basterds, Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) and Pvt. Omar Ulmer (Omar Doom), leave their seats and exit the auditorium heading upstairs to the balcony level. Donowitz carefully spies on the guards watching the entrance to Hitler's opera box from the nearest bathroom.
Shosanna loads the doctored fourth reel of Stolz der Nation onto the projector camera as Marcel locks the auditorium doors, sliding the safety locks at the tops and bottoms of the doors into place, and then slides a heavy iron crowbar through the door handles, further barring them. He steps behind the screen where Shosanna had placed her entire stack of nitrate film. Shosanna pulls a lever to switch the projector to the doctored reel. Watching from behind the screen, Marcel lights up a smoke and waits.
Meanwhile, Zoller, uncomfortable with the way he is portrayed killing Americans in Stolz der Nation, leaves the cinema auditorium and makes his way to the projectionist's room to hit on Shosanna. She is deeply concerned at his intrusion and tries to get rid of Zoller, but he pushes his way into the room and angrily confronts Shosanna about her treatment of him, warning her that she's no longer in a position to disrespect him. Needing to get Zoller out of the way, she asks him to lock the door, dropping a subtle hint, 'we don't have much time.' Soon as Zoller's back is turned to her, she pulls her gun from her purse and shoots him in the back, mortally wounding him. Quickly she glances into the auditorium to make sure she wasn't heard. Suddenly, she hears Zoller groan and realizes he's still alive. In an apparent moment of pity, she turns him over, and he shoots her dead.
We see Donowitz and Ulmer preparing their ambush to take out the opera box guards. Donowitz is dressed as a waiter delivering a glass of champagne. The ambush goes off without a hitch and they kill both guards, taking their machine guns.
Meanwhile, we see Hitler greatly enjoying the battle scene in the movie, where Zoller is taking out numerous American soldiers by himself. But his joy comes to a quick end when Zoller's challenge (in Stolz der Nation) is answered with the changes Shosanna made to the fourth reel. She tells the audience that they're all going to die, and she is a Jew ready to take revenge. On her cue, Marcel flicks his cigarette into the pile of nitrate film, igniting it. The fire bursts through the screen, causing a pandemonium in the auditorium. Just then, Donowitz and Ulmer burst into Hitler's box and gun down Hitler, Goebbels and the other Nazi leaders. As the cinema is engulfed in flames, they fire randomly into the crowd, who are attempting to flee, but escape is impossible, as the auditorium doors are now locked and barred. Finally, the dynamite that Landa had planted in Hitler's box, as well as the dynamite strapped to the Basterds' legs, now goes off. The cinema is destroyed in the subsequent inferno, killing all inside.
In the final scene, Landa and his radio operator set off with Raine and Utivich towards the American lines in Normandy, as part of the deal he had made with Raine's commanding officer. At the American lines, he surrenders to Raine and hands over his gun and sword. Raine orders Utivich to handcuff Landa, and shoots the driver dead, ordering Utivich to scalp him over Landa's outraged protest. Raine reveals that while he appreciates Landa's underhanded deal and all the perks he's secured for himself, he is incensed that on arriving in America, Landa intended to take off his SS uniform and blend in to the American populace, with nobody remembering all the heinous deeds he committed as a Nazi officer. Raine plans to remedy that. The film ends with Raine carving a swastika into Landa's forehead and declaring that it may just be his greatest 'masterpiece.' [D-Man2010]
Quentin Tarantino
Director(s)
Quentin Tarantino
Writer(s)
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)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
Lt. Aldo Raine
Brad Pitt
Shosanna Dreyfus
Mélanie Laurent
Col. Hans Landa
Christoph Waltz
Sgt. Donny Donowitz
Eli Roth
Lt. Archie Hicox
Michael Fassbender
Bridget von Hammersmark
Diane Kruger
Pvt Fredrick Zoller
Daniel Brühl
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
Til Schweiger
Cpl. Wilhelm Wicki
Gedeon Burkhard
Marcel
Jacky Ido
Pfc. Smithson Utivich
B.J. Novak
Pfc. Omar Ulmer
Omar Doom
Major Dieter Hellstrom
August Diehl
Perrier LaPadite
Denis Menochet
Joseph Goebbels
Sylvester Groth
Adolf Hitler
Martin Wuttke
General Ed Fenech
Mike Myers
Francesca Mondino
Julie Dreyfus
Sgt. Werner Rachtman
Richard Sammel
Master Sgt. Wilhelm / Pola Negri
Alexander Fehling
Winston Churchill
Rod Taylor
Pvt. Butz / Walter Frazer (as Sönke Möhring)
Soenke Möhring
PFC Gerold Hirschberg
Samm Levine
PFC Andy Kagan
Paul Rust
PFC Michael Zimmerman
Michael Bacall
German Soldier / Winnetou
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
German Female Soldier / Beethoven
Petra Hartung
German Soldier / Edgar Wallace (as Zack Volker Michalowski)
Volker Michalowski
German Soldier / Mata Hari
Ken Duken
Proprietor Eric
Christian Berkel
Mathilda
Anne-Sophie Franck
Charlotte LaPadite
Léa Seydoux
Julie LaPadite
Tina Rodriguez
Suzanne LaPadite
Lena Friedrich
Cpt. Wolfgang
Ludger Pistor
Babette
Jana Pallaske
Herrman #1
Wolfgang Lindner
Herrman #3
Michael Kranz
General Schonherr
Rainer Bock
Old French Veterinarian
André Penvern
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Inglorious Bastards
USA
Bastardos sin gloria
Argentina
Бесславные ублюдки
Russia
Adoxoi bastardi
Greece
Bastardi senza gloria
Italy
Bastardos Inglórios
Brazil
Bastardos sin Gloria
Uruguay
Becstelen Brigantyk
Hungary
Bekarty wojny
Poland
Hanebny pancharti
Czech Republic
Inglourious Basterds
Japan: English title
Kunniattomat paskiaiset
Finland
Le commando des bâtards
Canada: French title
Malditos bastardos
Spain
Neslavne barabe
Slovenia
Prokletnici
Serbia
Sacanas Sem Lei
Portugal
Soysuzlar çetesi
Turkey: Turkish title
Ticalosii fara glorie
Romania
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 soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
The main theme of the film is revenge. The film is set in an alternate history of the Second World War in which the entire top leadership of Nazi Germany, namely Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Bormann attend a film premiere in Paris celebrating the exploits of a German sniper who had managed to kill 300 American soldiers in Italy. Most of the film's timeframe is set in early June 1944, after the D-Day landings but before the liberation of Paris.
The film tracks the separate attempts to kill Hitler by two disparate forces, one being the "Basterds", a motley crew of Jewish American soldiers out for revenge against the Nazis. The Basterds have a modus operandi whereby each man must cut off the scalp of a dead Nazi soldier, with orders to get 100 scalps each. The Basterds allow one German soldier to survive each incident so as to spread the news of the terror of their attacks. However, the Basterds carve a swastika into the forehead of that German. The other force concerns Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), the only survivor of a Jewish family killed by the Jew Hunter, who plots her own revenge on the Nazis. The Basterds and Shosanna remain unaware of each other throughout the film.
The film is divided into 5 chapters 1. Once Upon a TimeIn Nazi Occupied France 1941. 2. Inglourious Basterds. 3. German Nights in Paris. 4. Operation Kino. 5. Revenge of the Giant Face.
Chapter One: "Once Upon a Time .......... In Nazi Occupied France (1941)" The film opens in 1941 with Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) of the Waffen-SS, proudly known as the "Jew Hunter", interrogating Perrier LaPadite (Denis Menochet), a French dairy farmer, over rumours that he had been hiding a Jewish family. By dropping a subtle hint about whether or not to leave LaPadite's family alone in the future, Landa manages to break down LaPadite and locates the hiding place of the Jews underneath the floorboards. He orders his soldiers to fire into the floorboards, killing all but the teenage Shosanna.
Chapter Two: "Inglourious Basterds" The second chapter is set in 1944 prior to the Allied invasion of France. It begins with Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) addressing in formation his newly formed 8 man Jewish-American commando unit. He proceeds to explain to them, in drill sergeant style, that they will be dropped behind enemy lines to cause havoc to all Nazi soldiers they come across with the goal of bringing fear into the heart of the enemy. He further explains to them that the normal standards of military conduct will not apply because the Nazis themselves have no humanity and are not deserving of any humanity in return. He mentions that he has Apache blood running through his veins and that all the man in his command owes him 100 Nazi scalps. We are then juxtaposed to a scene showing us Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke) angrily ridiculing two of his military command for not be able to deal with the Basterds and how the activity of the Basterds is having a negative effect upon his fighting men. Hitler then interviews Private Butz (Soenke Möhring )who was recently taken prisoner by the Basterds. As Butz responds to Hitlers questions we see Butzs ordeal via flashbacks beginning with Lt. Raines interview of another survivor Sgt. Werner Rachtman (Richard Sammel). Lt. Raine threatens him with death if he does not disclose the whereabouts of another Nazi patrol that is near at hand. Werner is adamant that he will not provide information that could possibly harm other German soldiers and Lt. Raine then calls Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth), known as the Bear Jew to beat Sgt. Rachtman to death with a baseball bat which he proceeds to do. Lt. Raine then interrogates Private Butz with the help of Cpl.Willem Wicki (Gideon Burkhard)who acts as interpreter. Private Butz quickly provides the Basterds with all they need to know after which Lt. Raine lets Private Butz go but not before doing so carves a swastika in Butzs forehead with his own customized mountain man Bowie knife. Swastika carving is Lt. Raines trademark. The scene ends with Sgt. Donowitz commenting to Lt. Raine that he is becoming quite good at carving swastikas. Lt. Raine responds: You know how you get to Carnegie Hall dont ya. Practice.
Chapter Three: "German Nights in Paris" Four years later, by 1944, Shosanna has assumed the identity of "Emmanuelle Mimieux". How she manages to do so is not revealed. She has also become the proprietress of a cinema, which is chosen by Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), a spotlight-hungry sniper-turned-actor whose exploits are celebrated in the Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (A Nation's Pride), as the setting for the film premiere. He is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Goebbels to hold the premiere in her cinema. Shosanna does not reciprocate Zoller's feelings.
Shosanna realizes that the presence of so many high ranking Nazi officials and officers provides an excellent opportunity for revenge. She resolves to burn down her cinema using the massive quantities of flammable nitrate film in her storage rooms during the premiere and makes a fourth reel in which she tells the Nazis present of her Jewish identity and revenge.
Chapter Four: "Operation Kino" In the meantime, the British have also learned of the Nazi leadership's plan to attend the premiere and dispatch a British officer, Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), to Paris to lead an attack on the cinema with the aid of the "Basterds" and a German double agent, an actress by the name of Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger).
Hammersmark arranges to meet Hicox and the Basterds in the basement of a French tavern. Unbeknown to her, however, the night of the rendezvous is also the occasion of a German staff sergeant (Alexander Fehling) celebrating the birth of his son with his soldier comrades. One of the German soldiers present strikes up a conversation with Hicox and notices that his accent is "odd". An SS officer (August Diehl) who is in the tavern as well also notices that odd accent. When Hicox gives the wrong three fingered order for whiskies (without using his thumb, a traditional German gesture), the SS officer realizes their deception. A firefight breaks out in which the British officer and two of the "Basterds" are killed as is everyone in the tavern except Hammersmark, who is wounded in her left leg.
Chapter Five: "Revenge of the Giant Face" Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a U.S. Army second lieutenant in the First Special Service Force [7] and the commanding officer of the Basterds, interrogates Hammersmark and decides to continue the operation against the cinema under the guise of Italians as suicide bombers. Colonel Landa, now an SD officer, is able to retrieve one of Hammersmark's shoes from the scene of the firefight at the tavern and also an autographed napkin which Hammersmark had signed for the staff sergeant's son. He approaches Hammersmark and Raine in the cinema lobby and is able to easily see through their disguises, as none, even Raine, can speak any Italian or German. He questions Hammersmark alone and makes her try on the shoe he had retrieved from the tavern. It is a perfect fit. He violently strangles her to death as a traitor, and orders the arrest of Raine. As Raine is driven off in a truck, he discovers one of his men, Private Utivich (B.J. Novak), has also been captured and is in the truck with him.
In the closing stages of the film Quentin Tarantino sets the quirks which show that the film is in an alternative universe. Landa reveals himself to be a turncoat. While speaking with Raine and Utivich, he tells them that four major Nazi leaders must all be killed to end the war immediately. They are all attending Nation's Pride, and he is prepared to let the assassination continue-- for a price. He has no intention of helping end the war only to be tried by a Jewish tribunal for war crimes and end up facing the gallows. In order to help end the war, he wants to make a deal, one Raine cannot authorize, but his commanding officer (Harvey Keitel) can. Landa has his radio operator help Raine reach his general, where Landa states the terms of his deal-- he wants full military pension and benefits under his current rank, a medal of honor for everyone involved in the operation, American citizenship and a home on Nantucket Island. He also reveals that he had planted Raine's stick of dynamite in Hitler's box at the cinema, meaning that there are now three attempts against Hitler's life. Raine is placed on the radio and his general tells him that Landa and his radio operator will drive him and Utivich in a truck to American lines, then surrender to them, whereupon Raine will drive the truck to base and bring Landa and the operator to him for debriefing.
Meanwhile, during the showing of Stolz der Nation, Shosanna and her assistant (and lover) Marcel (Jacky Ido) are manning the projection booth when he tells her it is time. He needs to lock the auditorium and go behind the screen. As Marcel makes his way toward the auditorium, two of the Basterds, Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) and Pvt. Omar Ulmer (Omar Doom), leave their seats and exit the auditorium heading upstairs to the balcony level. Donowitz carefully spies on the guards watching the entrance to Hitler's opera box from the nearest bathroom.
Shosanna loads the doctored fourth reel of Stolz der Nation onto the projector camera as Marcel locks the auditorium doors, sliding the safety locks at the tops and bottoms of the doors into place, and then slides a heavy iron crowbar through the door handles, further barring them. He steps behind the screen where Shosanna had placed her entire stack of nitrate film. Shosanna pulls a lever to switch the projector to the doctored reel. Watching from behind the screen, Marcel lights up a smoke and waits.
Meanwhile, Zoller, uncomfortable with the way he is portrayed killing Americans in Stolz der Nation, leaves the cinema auditorium and makes his way to the projectionist's room to hit on Shosanna. She is deeply concerned at his intrusion and tries to get rid of Zoller, but he pushes his way into the room and angrily confronts Shosanna about her treatment of him, warning her that she's no longer in a position to disrespect him. Needing to get Zoller out of the way, she asks him to lock the door, dropping a subtle hint, 'we don't have much time.' Soon as Zoller's back is turned to her, she pulls her gun from her purse and shoots him in the back, mortally wounding him. Quickly she glances into the auditorium to make sure she wasn't heard. Suddenly, she hears Zoller groan and realizes he's still alive. In an apparent moment of pity, she turns him over, and he shoots her dead.
We see Donowitz and Ulmer preparing their ambush to take out the opera box guards. Donowitz is dressed as a waiter delivering a glass of champagne. The ambush goes off without a hitch and they kill both guards, taking their machine guns.
Meanwhile, we see Hitler greatly enjoying the battle scene in the movie, where Zoller is taking out numerous American soldiers by himself. But his joy comes to a quick end when Zoller's challenge (in Stolz der Nation) is answered with the changes Shosanna made to the fourth reel. She tells the audience that they're all going to die, and she is a Jew ready to take revenge. On her cue, Marcel flicks his cigarette into the pile of nitrate film, igniting it. The fire bursts through the screen, causing a pandemonium in the auditorium. Just then, Donowitz and Ulmer burst into Hitler's box and gun down Hitler, Goebbels and the other Nazi leaders. As the cinema is engulfed in flames, they fire randomly into the crowd, who are attempting to flee, but escape is impossible, as the auditorium doors are now locked and barred. Finally, the dynamite that Landa had planted in Hitler's box, as well as the dynamite strapped to the Basterds' legs, now goes off. The cinema is destroyed in the subsequent inferno, killing all inside.
In the final scene, Landa and his radio operator set off with Raine and Utivich towards the American lines in Normandy, as part of the deal he had made with Raine's commanding officer. At the American lines, he surrenders to Raine and hands over his gun and sword. Raine orders Utivich to handcuff Landa, and shoots the driver dead, ordering Utivich to scalp him over Landa's outraged protest. Raine reveals that while he appreciates Landa's underhanded deal and all the perks he's secured for himself, he is incensed that on arriving in America, Landa intended to take off his SS uniform and blend in to the American populace, with nobody remembering all the heinous deeds he committed as a Nazi officer. Raine plans to remedy that. The film ends with Raine carving a swastika into Landa's forehead and declaring that it may just be his greatest 'masterpiece.' [D-Man2010]
Director(s)
Writer(s)
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)
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