Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 German-American war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany’s political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish-American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine’s group and who has a connection to Shosanna’s past. The film’s title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari’s macaroni combat film, The Inglorious Bastards (1978).
Tarantino wrote the script in 1998 but struggled with the ending and chose to hold off filming and instead direct the two-part film Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007 (as part of the double feature Grindhouse), Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. A co-production of the United States and Germany, the film began principal photography in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany and France with a $70 million production budget. Inglourious Basterds premiered on May 20, 2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. It was widely released in theatres in the United States and Europe in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures.
The film was commercially successful, grossing over $321 million in theatres worldwide, making it Tarantino’s highest-grossing film at that point, and second-highest to date, after Django Unchained (2012). It received multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. For his role as Landa, Waltz won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actor Award, as well as the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Film Details
Title
Inglourious Basterds
Year of Film
2009
Director
Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth (Uncredited)
Starring
Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent
Origin of Film
USA | Germany
Genre(s) of Film
Adventure | Drama | War
Box Office
Budget: $75,000,000 (Estimated)
Opening Weekend: $38,054,676 (USA) (21 August 2009)
Gross: $321,500,000 (Worldwide)
Poster Details
Type of Poster
Quad
Style of Poster
Knife Style Teaser
Origin of Poster
UK
Year of Poster
2009
Designer
Unknown
Artist
Unknown
Size (Inches)
40″ x 30″
Single Sided or Double Sided
Double Sided
NSS # / Printer Markings
None
Tagline
Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France…
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