"released a three-disc set that features a newly remastered transfer of the film, an interview with Quentin Tarantino (the director of the similarly titled film ""Inglourious Basterds"") and director Enzo G. Castellari, trailers, a tour of shooting locations, a documentary on the making of the film with interviews with Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, and Enzo G. Castellari, and a CD with the soundtrack. Both spellings appear on the DVDs: one uses the full word, ""Bastards"" and the other, ""Basterds."" In a contemporary review, the ""Monthly Film Bulletin"" stated that the film is ""totally lacking in realism or historical perspective"" as"
"Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's 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 who is connected 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 instead to direct the two-part film ""Kill Bill"". After directing ""Death Proof"" in 2007, 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. It premiered on May 20, 2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and received a wide release in theaters in the United States and"
"was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. On December 5, 2010, ""The Fight Before Christmas"", the eighth episode of ""The Simpsons"" 22nd season, featured an ""Inglourious Basterds"" sequence during a World War II flashback. When the Jewish, , American football player Gabe Carimi was drafted in the 2011 NFL Draft's first round by the Chicago Bears, he was nicknamed ""The Bear Jew"". Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the"
"Alexander Fehling Alexander Fehling (born 29 March 1981) is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for portraying Staff Sgt. in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino World War II film ""Inglourious Basterds"" and in the Showtime original series ""Homeland"" as the boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison. Fehling was born in East Berlin, East Germany. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2003 until 2007. He received the award in the Actor category for his portrayal of Sven Lehnert in the 2006 film, ""And Along Come Tourists"". He previously won the Prize"
"a rarity for locally made genre films at the time. Castellari cameoed as a German mortar squad commander in ""The Inglorious Bastards"", and Quentin Tarantino cast Castellari in the cameo role of a German general in his film ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009), which was inspired by Castellari's 1978 film. Enzo G. Castellari Enzo Girolami Castellari (born Rome, 29 July 1938) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor. Castellari was born on 29 July 1938 in Rome into a family of filmmakers. His father was a boxer turned film maker Marino Girolami. His uncle is filmmaker Romolo Guerrieri and his brother was"
"from the for his role as Prince in the theater production of """" (""Snow White""). Fehling is best known to English-speaking audiences for his role as German Master Sgt. in Quentin Tarantino's World War II 2009 film ""Inglourious Basterds"". Fehling is incorrectly referred to as a Staff Sgt by the English captions. Fehling also dubs his performance in the German version of the film. Fehling appeared as a series regular in the fifth season of the Showtime original series ""Homeland"", which began airing in October 2015. He played Jonas Hollander, a legal counsel for the Düring Foundation and boyfriend of"
"""Quentin Tarantino's ""Inglourious Basterds"" is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights."" Author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn was disturbed by the portrayal of Jewish American soldiers mimicking German atrocities done to European Jews, stating, ""In ""Inglourious Basterds"", Tarantino indulges this taste for vengeful violence by—well, by turning Jews into Nazis"". Peter Bradshaw of ""The Guardian"" stated he was ""struck ... by how exasperatingly awful and transcendentally disappointing it is"". While praising Christoph Waltz's performance (""a good actor new to American audiences""),"
"Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison. Alexander Fehling Alexander Fehling (born 29 March 1981) is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for portraying Staff Sgt. in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino World War II film ""Inglourious Basterds"" and in the Showtime original series ""Homeland"" as the boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison. Fehling was born in East Berlin, East Germany. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2003 until 2007. He received the award in the Actor category for his portrayal of Sven Lehnert in the 2006 film, ""And Along Come Tourists""."
"in July 2018. Eli Roth Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, first coming to prominence for directing the films ""Cabin Fever"" and ""Hostel"". As an actor, Roth's most prominent role has been as Donny ""The Bear Jew"" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film ""Inglourious Basterds"" for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble). Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat"
"Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film ""Inglourious Basterds"". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, among others. Standartenführer (SS Colonel) Hans Landa is an Austrian SS officer assigned to the Sicherheitsdienst. He is nicknamed ""the Jew Hunter"" for his uncanny ability to locate Jews hiding throughout Occupied France. Egotistical and ambitious, Landa takes a great"
"inspiration for the title of his 2009 film ""Inglourious Basterds."" The Tarantino film is not a remake of ""The Inglorious Bastards,"" but contains a few references to it, including the appearance of actor Bo Svenson as an American colonel. In France in 1944, American soldiers Berle, a deserter; Nick Colasanti, a petty thief; Fred, nicknamed ""Assassin""; Tony, a mutineer; and Lieutenant Yeager (arrested for refusing to execute orders to kill, among others, women and children) are sentenced to death for their crimes and are shipped to a prisoners' camp near the Ardennes. During the journey to the camp, the convoy"
"Glorious 39 Glorious 39 is a 2009 British war thriller film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jeremy Northam, Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter and Eddie Redmayne. The film was released on 20 November 2009. On the eve of World War II, as the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold its traditional way of life, daughter Anne sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the pro-appeasement movement. In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page. Interested in family history, he asks them"
"film ""Play Dirty"" follows a similar theme of convicts-recruited-as-soldiers. The 1977 Italian war film ""The Inglorious Bastards"" is a loose remake of ""The Dirty Dozen"". Quentin Tarntino's 2009 ""Inglourious Basterds"" was later derived from the English-language title of director Enzo G. Castellari's 1977 war film ""The Inglorious Bastards"". Several TV films were produced in the mid-to-late 1980s which capitalized on the popularity of the first film. Lee Marvin, Richard Jaeckel and Ernest Borgnine reprised their roles for """" in 1985, leading a group of military convicts in a mission to kill a German general who was plotting to assassinate Adolf"
"Denis Ménochet Denis Ménochet (born 18 September 1976) is a French actor. Ménochet is known to international audiences for his role as a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film ""Inglourious Basterds"". Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for ""New York Daily News"", praised Ménochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of ""Inglourious Basterds"". Weitzman wrote in August 2009, ""The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Ménochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring"
"Eli Roth Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, first coming to prominence for directing the films ""Cabin Fever"" and ""Hostel"". As an actor, Roth's most prominent role has been as Donny ""The Bear Jew"" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film ""Inglourious Basterds"" for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble). Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack for their"
"Lane who both appeared in ""Kill Bill: Volume 2"". Tarantino's film ""Inglourious Basterds"", released in 2009, is the story of a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Filming began in October 2008. The film opened on August 21, 2009 to very positive reviews and reached the No. 1 spot at the box office worldwide. It went on to become Tarantino's highest-grossing film until it was surpassed by ""Django Unchained"" three years later. In 2011, production began on ""Django Unchained"", a film about the revenge of a former slave in the U.S. South in 1858."
"Martin Wuttke Martin Wuttke (born 8 February 1962) is a German actor and director who achieved international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film ""Inglourious Basterds"". Wuttke began his actor training at the college theater in Bochum and then changed to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum (now Schauspielschule Bochum). He played on numerous German-speaking stages: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Schiller Theater in Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater of West Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt am Main, Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH)"
"Jews."" Denis Ménochet Denis Ménochet (born 18 September 1976) is a French actor. Ménochet is known to international audiences for his role as a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film ""Inglourious Basterds"". Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for ""New York Daily News"", praised Ménochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of ""Inglourious Basterds"". Weitzman wrote in August 2009, ""The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Ménochet, playing a French farmer accused of"
"Kruger and Christoph Waltz. It was a French-language role for which she learned to speak English for a few scenes. The film was a huge commercial and critical success, grossing over $321 million in theaters worldwide. Laurent's performance was praised by several critics. Kyle Buchanan of ""Movieline"" wrote: ""Mélanie Laurent provides ""Inglourious Basterds"" its heart and soul. It falls to the 26-year-old French actress to anchor some of the World War II film's most challenging scenes as Shosanna."" Owen Gleiberman of ""Entertainment Weekly"" wrote that Laurent should have received the nomination at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards saying, ""In"
"Omar Doom Omar Doom (born June 29, 1976) is an American actor, musician and artist. Doom is best known to film audiences for his role as PFC Omar Ulmer in the 2009 film, ""Inglourious Basterds"", directed by Quentin Tarantino. Omar Doom was born Omar Makhdomi (pronounced ""Makhdoomi"") in Easton, Pennsylvania, to parents, Dr. Rashid and Jawahira Makhdomi. Both his parents originate from the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent. His father is a physician at Easton Hospital. He was one of four siblings, including his three sisters. Doom's parents would take the family to a cultural institution or exhibit every"
"DJ's under the name STRAIGHT RAZOR as well as Omar Doom. Omar Doom Omar Doom (born June 29, 1976) is an American actor, musician and artist. Doom is best known to film audiences for his role as PFC Omar Ulmer in the 2009 film, ""Inglourious Basterds"", directed by Quentin Tarantino. Omar Doom was born Omar Makhdomi (pronounced ""Makhdoomi"") in Easton, Pennsylvania, to parents, Dr. Rashid and Jawahira Makhdomi. Both his parents originate from the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent. His father is a physician at Easton Hospital. He was one of four siblings, including his three sisters. Doom's parents"
"has compared the character to Sherlock Holmes, due to the meticulous, cerebral way Landa searches for Jews and traitors. Landa was also compared to ""Die Hard"" villain Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, due to his disdain for the inferior intellect of those around him. Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film ""Inglourious Basterds"". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at"
"tone and a sense of balance."" Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau (; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for roles in films such as ""Rudy"" (1993), ""Swingers"" (1996) (which he also wrote), ""Very Bad Things"" (1998), ""The Break-Up"" (2006), ""Friends"" (1994-2004), ""Couples Retreat"" (2009), and ""Chef"" (2014) (which he also directed). He has additionally directed the films ""Elf"" (2003), """" (2005), ""Iron Man"" (2008), ""Iron Man 2"" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011), and ""The Jungle Book"" (2016), and served as an executive producer on ""The Avengers"" (2012), ""Iron"
"Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau (; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for roles in films such as ""Rudy"" (1993), ""Swingers"" (1996) (which he also wrote), ""Very Bad Things"" (1998), ""The Break-Up"" (2006), ""Friends"" (1994-2004), ""Couples Retreat"" (2009), and ""Chef"" (2014) (which he also directed). He has additionally directed the films ""Elf"" (2003), """" (2005), ""Iron Man"" (2008), ""Iron Man 2"" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011), and ""The Jungle Book"" (2016), and served as an executive producer on ""The Avengers"" (2012), ""Iron Man 3"" (2013), """" (2015), """""
"Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who is born an octogenarian and ages in reverse, with Pitt's ""sensitive"" performance making ""Benjamin Button"" a ""timeless masterpiece"", according to Michael Sragow of ""The Baltimore Sun"". The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination, all in the category for Best Actor. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide. Pitt's next leading role came in 2009 with the Quentin Tarantino-directed war film ""Inglourious Basterds"", which premiered at"
"Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz (; born 4 October 1956) is a German-Austrian actor and director. He is widely known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving critical acclaim for portraying SS officer Hans Landa in ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009) and bounty hunter King Schultz in ""Django Unchained"" (2012). For both performances, he earned an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Waltz also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa. Waltz portrayed computer genius Qohen Leth in the science fiction"
"an acting role in Takashi Miike's Western film ""Sukiyaki Western Django,"" and intended to make a kung fu film entirely in Mandarin; this project foundered. He directed ""Death Proof"" (2007), directed a part of the 2007 ""Grindhouse,"" before returning to work on ""Inglourious Basterds"". The film's title was inspired by the English-language title of director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 war film, ""The Inglorious Bastards"". When asked for an explanation of the spelling during a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Tarantino said, ""I'm never going to explain that"". When pushed, Tarantino would not explain the first ""u"" in ""Inglourious"","
"Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American animation director, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his animated feature films, ""The Iron Giant"" (1999), ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). Bird developed a love for the art of animation at an early age and was mentored by Milt Kahl, one of Disney's reputed Nine Old Men. He was part of one of the earliest graduating classes of the California Institute of the Arts alongside John Lasseter and Tim Burton. Afterward, Bird worked as an animator for Disney in ""The"
"Tarantino's direction of ""Grave Danger"", a """" episode, garnered him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination. He directed a scene in Frank Miller and Rodriguez's ""Sin City"" (2005). Tarantino and Rodriguez later collaborated in the double feature ""Grindhouse"" (2007); he directed the segment ""Death Proof"". He next penned and directed the war film ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009), a fictionalized account of the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. The critically and commercially successful film earned Tarantino two nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards—Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. His greatest commercial success came"
"(2005). Malcolm Stoddard Malcolm Stoddard (born 20 July 1948) is a British actor who has appeared in films and television. He attended the all-male grammar school Chichester High School For Boys. His TV credits include ""The Voyage of Charles Darwin"", ""Colditz"", ""The Brothers"", ""The New Avengers"", """" (1974), ""Blake's 7"", ""The Treachery Game"", ""The Assassination Run"", ""Squadron"", ""By the Sword Divided"", ""Juliet Bravo"", ""Boon"", ""The Bill"", ""Families"", ""Emmerdale"", ""The Campbells"", ""Heartbeat"" and ""Road to Avonlea"". His films include ""Luther"" (1973), ""S.O.S. Titanic"" (1979), ""The Godsend"" (1980), ""Tree of Hands"" (1989), ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1996), ""Treasure Island"" (1999) and ""Dil Jo Bhi"
"Konstantin Lopushansky Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky (; born June 12, 1947) is a Soviet and Russian film director, film theorist and author. He is best known for directing post-apocalyptic films ""Dead Man's Letters"" (1986), ""A Visitor to a Museum"" (1989), ""Russian Symphony"" (1994) and ""The Ugly Swans"". Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997), People's Artist of Russia (2007). Konstantin Lopushansky was born on June 12, 1947 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. His mother was linguistics professor Sofia Petrovna Lopushanskaya, who worked at the Volgograd university. Konstantin's father was Sergei Timofeyevich Lopushansky, a front-line soldier who died in 1953 from wounds he"
"an opera all based on films by Bier were commissioned and performed in Musikhuset. Brothers (2009 film) Brothers is a 2009 American psychological drama war film and a remake of Susanne Bier's Danish film ""Brødre"" (2004), which takes place in Afghanistan and Denmark. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, and is directed by Jim Sheridan. Both films take inspiration from Homer's epic poem, the ""Odyssey"". The film received a mixed to positive response and grossed $43 million. Tobey Maguire received particular praise for his performance and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a"