In the cinema: Inglourious Basterds

"Inglourious Basterds": Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who assembles a troupe of American Jewish soldiers in the fight against the Nazis.

"Inglourious Basterds": Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France ...

"Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France ...", a green hilly landscape, a small, idyllic farm, a young girl hanging laundry, a vigorous peasant chopping wood. The input scene of "Inglourious Basterds" is so surreally beautiful and peaceful that it makes you shudder. Only seconds later, the Nazi henchmen are already diving under the leadership of Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) on. What follows then causes the blood in the veins to freeze. Breathless, you follow the seemingly harmless, yet strange, banter between Nazi and peasant.

Colonel Landa is in search of the Jewish family Dreyfus. Their only survivor: daughter Shosanna. She was able to flee to Paris and gain a new identity as a cinema owner.

In the cinema: Inglourious Basterds

"Inglourious Basterds": Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz)

At the same time in another part of France, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) a troop of American-Jewish soldiers who are to perform nimble and shocking retaliatory attacks against the Nazis. Among them, the German psychopath Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), who runs the call to brutally murder Nazis as soon as he gets their hands on them. Raine demands: "One hundred Nazi Scalps from each of you." In the fight against the Nazis his troupe contacts the German actress and secret agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on. Together, they are forging a plan to stamp out the leaders of the Third Reich in one fell swoop. Ironically, in the cinema of Shosanna, who escaped from Hans Landa, the fates of all those involved meet and culminate in a brilliant showdown.

Daniel Brühl is also present in "Inglourious Basterds".

"Inglourious Basterds": intellectual sadism and repulsive genius

What does a director like? Quentin Tarantinowho has a penchant for Asian martial arts films and Italian spaghetti westerns, with a movie about World War II? He turns in his "kill bill" -man a ruthless violent posh, which is not for the faint-hearted.

But even more than the brutality of the vendetta of the "bastards" makes you the perfidy and the intellectual sadism to create the Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. With a relentless intensity, the multilingual and cultured Nazi hunts the Jews. Every moment one waits spellbound for his next move, always in the knowledge and the expectation that he has already seen through his interlocutors and she with his repulsive genius destroy it.

Brad Pitt in "Inglourious Basterds"

Brewing with a mix of real and fictional WWII characters Quentin Tarantino an unbelievably exciting cinematic epic together in which he celebrates the violence one after the other and from whose end one wishes oneself that it actually happened like that.

The idea of ​​filling the respective roles with native speakers lends "Inglourious Basterds" all the more credibility. And finally, the German, American, and French actors embody the different characters so real that you just have to remember the correct outcome of the story during the credits so as not to be the Tarantino "Once-in-Nazi-Occupied" France .., "- succumb to fairy tales.

Inglourious Basterds Cinema Scene and Hitlers death (July 2024).