Inglourious Basterds [SEP] director
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 revisionist 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 an 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
," 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", but said, "The "Basterds"? That's