Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 GermanAmerican warthriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Mlanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender and Eli Roth. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germanys political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of JewishAmerican soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine. The films title was inspired by director Enzo G. Castellaris macaroni combat film, The Inglorious Bastards 1978.
In 1941, SS colonel Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter, interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite as to the whereabouts of the last unaccountedfor Jewish family in the area. LaPadite reveals that the Dreyfus family is hidden under the floor in exchange for the Germans to leave his family alone for the rest of the war. Landa orders SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards. All are killed except Shosanna, a young woman who flees through a field. Landa watches her go, deciding not to shoot.In the spring of 1944, 1st Special Service Force Lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits JewishAmerican soldiers to the Basterds, who spread fear among the German soldiers by brutally killing and scalping them. The Basterds also recruit Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a German soldier who murdered thirteen Gestapo officers. Adolf Hitler interviews a Nazi soldier, Private Butz, whose squad was ambushed and his sergeant beaten to death with a baseball bat by Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz, the Bear Jew. Raine carved a swastika into Butzs forehead with a knife so he can never hide his Nazi identity. ........
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