Inglourious Basterds

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Movie
German title Inglourious Basterds
Original title Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious-logo.svg
Country of production United States , Germany
original language English , German , French , Italian
Publishing year 2009
length 154 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Quentin Tarantino ,
Eli Roth (short film "Pride of the Nation")
script Quentin Tarantino
production Lawrence Bender ,
Quentin Tarantino
camera Robert Richardson
cut Sally Menke
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Inglourious Basterds (intentional misspelling for English Inglorious Bastards , for example: " Inglorious bastards ") is a US American - German counterfactual war film by Quentin Tarantino that was released on August 20, 2009 . The film was his greatest financial success until the release of Django Unchained in 2012.

action

Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time ... in Nazi- occupied France

1941: The farm of the dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite is inspected by Hans Landa, a " Colonel of the SS ". Landa, who specializes in finding hidden Jews, suspects that the farmer is hiding the Dreyfus Jewish family - dairy farmers from the neighborhood - who have disappeared since the German occupation of France . In an initially very polite, but later increasingly perfidious conversation, Landa arouses the fear in the farmer that he knows exactly what is going on. At the same time, Landa offers him to spare his family and, moreover, even to reward them if he cooperates. Finally the farmer loses his composure and reveals where the family is hiding. Landa's SS men open fire on the family crouching under the floorboards. Daughter Shosanna is the only survivor who can escape because Landa has no chance of hitting the escaping girl with his handgun.

Chapter 2: Inglourious Basterds

In a British barracks, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who was descended from Jim Bridger and Indians, is assembling a Jewish combat force. This is placed behind the enemy lines in France to kill as many "Nazis in uniform" as possible. Lieutenant Raine, following the approach of his Indian ancestors, also urges his men to scalp the corpses . The unit succeeds in landing and the men begin to decimate the German army through guerrilla actions, committing numerous war crimes, which earns them the name Basterd given by German soldiers . In order to spread reports of their deeds and thus the fear of the Basterds, they let some soldiers live; However, Lieutenant Raine carved a swastika into their foreheads beforehand to mark them as Nazis forever, even if they should take off their uniforms.

Chapter 3: German evening in Paris

1944: Shoshanna Dreyfus runs a cinema in Paris under the code name Emmanuelle Mimieux. Shoshanna and her African employee and lover Marcel have saved the empty cinema from the flames. The story that the cinema was inherited from Shoshanna's aunt is only used as a cover against the Nazis. It aroused the interest of the German sniper Fredrick Zoller, who was interested in movies. He achieved fame when, cut off from his troops, he shot 250 enemy soldiers from a bell tower over the course of three days, before the remaining 50 soldiers withdrew. This was filmed as the German propaganda film Stolz der Nation with Zoller in the lead role and is now to be premiered in Paris.

Zoller persuades Goebbels to move the premiere planned at the Ritz to Shoshanna's cinema. When she learns that Hans Landa (as head of security) and other members of the Nazi government will be present, she makes the decision, together with Marcel, to set fire to the cinema during the screening in order to kill everyone present.

Chapter 4: Operation Kino

Lieutenant Hicox receives orders from Allied High Command to join the Basterds and meet with German actress Bridget von Hammersmark, who works as an agent for the Allies. They work out the plan that von Hammersmark, Hicox and the two German members of the Basterds should gain access to the premiere in Shoshanna's cinema in order to blow it up together with Adolf Hitler who is present . At their meeting in the basement of a French tavern, however, they were exposed by the SS-Sturmbannführer Hellstrom who was present. There is a shooting in which everyone present dies except von Hammersmark and a German soldier named Wilhelm. However, von Hammersmark was shot. After the German soldier, initially reassured by Aldo Raine, put down his weapon, von Hammersmark shoots him. A new, but weaker camouflage is now being created for Operation Kino, namely from Hammersmark's new companion in the form of an Italian film crew consisting of Raine, Donowitz and Ulmer, another Basterd. In the meantime, Landa secures a women's shoe and an autograph from Hammersmark in the tavern. Both point to her as an enemy agent, since she is not among the dead.

Chapter 5: Revenge of the Giant Face

Shosanna has completed her arson preparations in her own cinema and enters the anteroom of the cinema. The Basterds appear disguised as Italian film staff together with Bridget at the premiere party. Landa sends two of the Basterds, the "Bear Jews" Donowitz and Omar, to their seats, while Raine and Bridget are held by Landa in the lobby. Because he - speaking good Italian - has now exposed the alleged Italians. After Landa openly accuses Bridget of treason in the cinema office, he strangles her and has Raine and Utivich captured. Landa makes Raine an offer: He sees the end of the war with the landing of the Allies in Normandy and gives the two Basterds who remained in the cinema a free hand to carry out the assassination attempt. In return, he demands amnesty for the crimes he has committed as well as material goods and, in addition to US citizenship, the Medal of Honor . Later in history, he is said to be the initiator of Operation Kino and the end of the Second World War. The Allied High Command agreed to the demands by radio. Then Landa, his radio operator, Raine and Utivich drive to the front, where Landa officially wants to surrender.

The premiere has started in the cinema. Marcel barricades the exits to the cinema. During the performance, Zoller goes to Shosanna's projector room in order to find private contact with her again. In order not to jeopardize her plan, she shoots him down, but then Zoller also shoots him shortly before his death. Meanwhile the propaganda film is interrupted by a cut close-up of Shoshanna's face. In this scene, she reveals her Jewish roots and orders Marcel to set fire to the cinema, which Marcel then does by setting the screen on fire with the cinema’s highly flammable archive of nitrate film rolls . While panic breaks out among the guests, the two Basterds who have remained in the cinema storm the box and shoot Hitler, Goebbels and other members of the government and then fire the submachine guns of the guards who were previously killed at the trapped guests in the auditorium. Shoshanna's face, which heralds the Jewish vengeance on the Nazis, is still projected into the smoke of the fire. The Basterds' explosives then explode and the entire cinema is destroyed.

Meanwhile, Raine and Landa reach the front. Landa and his radio operator surrender as planned, but Raine shoots the radio operator and has Utivich scalp him. Since he doesn't want to let Landa get away scot-free, he scratches a swastika on his forehead as a permanent mark of shame . The film ends with this scene.

production

History of origin

From the late 1990s to early 2000, auteur filmmaker Quentin Tarantino wrote several scripts, including Inglourious Basterds . The film was supposed to be set in World War II. In October 2001 Tarantino gave the first glimpses of the script: “It's my bunch of guys on a mission film. It's my version of The Dirty Dozen , Agents Die Lonely and The Guns of Navarone . ”Another inspiration was Hitler - Dead or Alive , a 1942 American propaganda film in which Hitler (played by actor Bobby Watson) as in Inglourious Basterds finds a premature fictional end.

Initially intended as a western , the film evolved into a kind of Two Glorious Scoundrels from WWII in Nazi- occupied France . The content was changed again, and for a short time Tarantino saw two US Army units as a central part of the film .

Michael Madsen , who had starred in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill , was supposed to star in Inglourious Basterds , which was scheduled for 2004. In 2002 Tarantino had almost finished three scripts when he claimed the film was one of his best writing performances, but it never ends. So first of all he set out to shoot the two-part film Kill Bill with Uma Thurman . After he had finished this project, he shortened the script for Inglourious Basterds , which at the time had a length of 222 pages and in his opinion would have been enough for three films. The 2005 version was about soldiers who had escaped execution and now wanted to support the Allies .

In order to create the film as a spaghetti western, Tarantino looked for suitable locations. In particular, he was out to shoot parts in a Spanish pub, as one is used to in this kind of western, as a restaurant for Americans in no man's land. He especially liked the fact that in such a film he could use musical elements such as rap in addition to music by the Andrews Sisters and Édith Piaf . Tarantino announced that it would be epic, barbaric and racist, on the part of the Americans as well as on the part of the Nazis. Tarantino wanted to set the film close to D-Day . In November 2004, however, he decided to postpone the project again. Instead, he began producing Death Proof . After the promotional tour for Death Proof , he returned to Inglourious Basterds . He sat down with the Weinstein Company to arrange an official start of shooting.

In July 2008, the director and production company decided to set the schedule so that the film could run in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2009 . The Weinstein Company agreed to co-finance the film and distribute it in the United States. It was negotiated with Universal Pictures that they would finance the rest with their newly founded International Studio and market the film internationally. Zehnte Babelsberg Film , a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, took over part of the production costs .

At the end of July, Quentin Tarantino traveled to Berlin to prepare . His presence aroused great media interest, for example several paparazzi were always waiting in front of his hotel and the newspapers reported almost daily of new speculations about film and actors. At that time there was no fixed list of actors, only Brad Pitt , Eli Roth and BJ Novak were confirmed .

The script appeared on the Internet in August 2008

The script from July 2, 2008 appeared on the Internet in August. That this was the original was neither officially confirmed nor denied. However, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and New York Magazine assumed that it could only be the original: “Already the rhythm of the language , the uniquely twisted and yet irresistible logic of the dialogues, the humor in the stage directions - oh, it is unmistakable, Tarantino as he lives and breathes. ”The script was later published in paperback. The script title Inglourious Basterds varies in spelling the title of Enzo G. Castellaris film Inglorious Bastards ( The Inglorious Bastards) inspired the Tarantino. Castellari and his then leading actor Bo Svenson appear in guest roles in Tarantino's film.

Inglourious Basterds was submitted as the first competition entry for the Cannes Film Festival and screened there on May 20th. At the premiere, visitors such as Sharon Stone , Robert Pattinson , Ornella Muti , Dita Von Teese and Paris Hilton ensured that “even highly accredited journalists no longer came to the cinema” because of the enormous crowd. The German premiere took place on July 28th in Berlin, before the film was officially released in German cinemas on August 20, 2009 in a version that was six minutes longer than the Cannes version. The same week the film was released in numerous other countries. The film was first shown on German free TV on May 1, 2012 from 10:25 p.m. on RTL .

occupation

Brad Pitt at the premiere in Berlin

Quentin Tarantino performed the first auditions in July 2008. It transpired that he wanted to cast Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Leonardo DiCaprio as Hans Landa. On July 15th, Tarantino met Brad Pitt in France and was able to convince him of the lead role. Eli Roth , who already played a small role in Tarantino's Death Proof , got the role of Sgt. Donnie Donowitz and was one of the first actors involved in the film.

A month later, Mike Myers was announced as the actor of the British general Ed Fenech, the cast DiCaprio was denied, however, because Tarantino preferred a German-speaking actor for his role. The director also tried to sign Nastassja Kinski and David Krumholtz . The script was also presented to Adam Sandler , who had to reject it because the filming overlapped with his other projects. BJ Novak signed for the role of the Jewish soldier Utivich. By Simon Pegg and Samm Levine , the cast should be added again. Pegg had to refuse the offer a little later, because the filming of the film Paul - An Alien on the Run by Greg Mottola overlapped with that of Inglourious Basterds . Instead, the German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender came into question for the role of Lieutenant Archie Hicox.

Actors Eli Roth , Mélanie Laurent and producer Lawrence Bender at the premiere in August 2009

During the 2008 Venice Film Festival , Diane Kruger announced that she learned on August 27 that she would be "starring in Tarantino's next film with Brad Pitt." Actually, Nastassja Kinski was intended for the role. The offer was surprising for her because the role was “something completely different” “from what [she] had done so far” in her acting career. At the beginning of September 2008, the Austrian Christoph Waltz , who is known for depicting mostly dark characters , was hired. His character of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa was the second announcement of a major leading role in the film - after Brad Pitt. This character is the highlight of his acting career so far, as he has received multiple awards for his role as the only actor in this film.

Also on September 2, Tarantino had Daniel Brühl and Til Schweiger , who had been associated with the film in advance and had appeared in auditions, announced as additional cast. Schweiger was the fifth German-speaking actor engagement for the film and also another figurehead of the German acting team. Schweiger plays a brutal former German sergeant among the Basterds. As Fredrick Zoller, Brühl plays a highly decorated German soldier who is interested in culture. This is the role for which Leonardo DiCaprio was also in discussion.

Samuel L. Jackson , who worked with Tarantino in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown and made a cameo in Kill Bill - Volume 2 , was interested in the role of the only black man in the film. Said character, Marcel, is a projectionist who speaks only French . The role was therefore given to Jacky Ido . Jackson eventually acted as an off-narrator in the film.

On September 20, 2008, a mass casting for several thousand extras took place in Babelsberg . The main search was for blond men between 20 and 45 with military experience or amputations. The somewhat unusual profile to which some of the small actors should correspond did not trigger any protests or negative reactions, because it was “okay. In war limbs and heads fall off ”. Quentin Tarantino himself was not present at the mass casting and looked at possible actors for more important roles. At a casting he came to the Berliner Jana Pallaske , for whom he wrote a role especially. On September 27, 2,800 women and men applied for extras roles at the second and final mass casting.

At the end of September 2008, other German actors were cast with August Diehl , Gedeon Burkhard , Christian Berkel and Sylvester Groth . Berkel played in 2005 in Der Untergang and in 2008 in Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination in World War II films. Groth, who embodies Joseph Goebbels , already played this role in Mein Führer - The Really True Truth About Adolf Hitler . Some of the last cast announcements were the engagements of Omar Doom ("Nate" in Death Proof ), Michael Bacall ("Omar" from Death Proof , supplier in CSI: Tracking Down the Criminals , episode Grabesstille ), Julie Dreyfus ("Sofie Fatale" in Kill Bill - Volume 1 ), Martin Wuttke , Richard Samm , Sönke Möhring , Rod Taylor , Denis Ménochet and Cloris Leachman . Martin Wuttke came to his role as Hitler through his portrayal in Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui at the Berliner Ensemble . Tarantino shot a total of 45 German actors.

Filming

On September 9, 2008, filming began with around 200 crew members in Hertigswalde, Saxony, near Sebnitz . However, changeable weather meant that some of the recordings planned in Saxon Switzerland had to be relocated to the Babelsberg film studio . The shooting in Saxon Switzerland, where the backdrop of a French farm was created, lasted a good week. In Saxony, the film was also shot a month later in Görlitz , 70 kilometers away .

After Tarantino had already been in Berlin in July and August 2008 to look for actors for his film, in September he decided on some locations for the shooting in Berlin-Brandenburg and began preparing for the shooting. The first rehearsals took place on September 24th. Filming began there on October 13th, when Brad Pitt was also in front of the camera for Tarantino for the first time. Until October 22nd, the film was shot at Fort Hahneberg in Spandau , closed to the public .

Until the end of October, the shooting took place in the small town of Nauen , where, among other things, the French bar was set up, in which the soldiers are planning retaliatory strikes against the German Reich.

At the beginning of August Tarantino was already in Görlitz looking for locations for the film, and at the end of September he met with the mayor, Joachim Paulick . He “wants to shoot here, it's a wonderful place,” he announced, setting himself down on film sets at Görlitzer Untermarkt and the Silesian Museum . On November 1st, filming began in front of the “magnificent city panorama”. The old town of Görlitz, the largest area monument in Germany with 3,500 listed buildings, has already been featured in international productions such as Around the World in 80 Days and Der Vorleser . It offered itself as a location for filming because there are few modern buildings and few neon signs or eye-catching signs on the houses. In addition to Berlin and Saxony, a day was filmed in Paris on December 19, 2008 .

Most of the shooting days took place in studios, which is atypical for Tarantino. The majority of the filming took place in the studios and the outdoor area of Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam , for example in the outside backdrop of Berliner Straße and in the Marlene Dietrich -Halle, where u. a. the Parisian cinema, exploding in film, was born.

Filming ended on February 10, 2009. After shooting the last scene for the film, Tarantino abruptly left the film set. He himself said: "I'm just a very emotional person and not very good at saying goodbye."

financing

The production cost of the film were 70 million dollars . Almost as much was raised at the box office on the opening weekend. From the German Federal Film Fund received Inglourious Basterds 6.8 million euros. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg sponsored the production with 600,000 euros. The Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung contributed 300,000 euros.

Director

Tarantino sometimes combined different genres in his films. For the first time he made a war film with Inglourious Basterds . The director himself sees the film as "a trace of Reservoir Dogs , a splash of true romance and a few drops of pulp fiction ".

In addition to his acting role, Eli Roth is a guest director in the film. In 2007 he filmed the Thanksgiving trailer for the Double Feature Grindhouse by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. In Inglourious Basterds he directs the film-in-film segment Pride of the Nation , a Nazi propaganda film that glorifies Fredrick Zoller as the most successful sniper in the Wehrmacht .

To the pride of the nation , a mockumentary , an alleged making-of , was published on September 11, 2009 . As the alleged director of the 1940s, Eli Roth takes a stance on the film, as does Daniel Brühl and other actors from the film.

music

Paul Aulicino, among others, is responsible for selecting the soundtrack for the film. Ennio Morricone , whose most famous works include the music for westerns such as Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod and Zwei Gloriges Malunken , was supposed to be the actual composer of the film. It would have been the first time that Tarantino had commissioned a professional composer for the film music; he had previously claimed "that he would never use newly composed music for one of his films". So far he has compiled the music himself or hired Robert Rodriguez for Kill Bill - Volume 2 . Morricone's music was featured in Kill Bill , but was not composed specifically for the film, as were the eight works he performed in this film. Since he was celebrating his 80th birthday during the filming, he refused the order due to lack of time, whereby Tarantino came back to the statement that hiring someone for the music of his film was "absurd". The official soundtrack comprises 14 tracks and was released in Germany on August 14, 2009. In addition to CD and vinyl editions, the compilation was also available as a download.

No. title Artist Original film
1 The Green Leaves of Summer Dimitri Tiomkin Alamo (1960)
2 The Verdict Ennio Morricone The hunted of the Sierra Madre
3 L'incontro Con La Figlia Ennio Morricone Ringo comes back
4th White Lightning Charles Bernstein The Tiger Chases the Pack (1973)
5 Il Mercenario (Reprisa) Ennio Morricone The dreaded two
6th Slaughter Billy Preston Slaughter
7th Algiers, November 1954 Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo Battle for Algiers
8th The Surrender (La resa) Ennio Morricone The hunted of the Sierra Madre
9 One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato) Gianni Ferrio A hole in the dollar
10 Bath attack Charles Bernstein The Entity
11 The world will not end because of this Zarah Leander Great Love (1942)
12 The Man with the Big Sombrero June Havoc Hi Diddle Diddle
13 I wish I were a chicken Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch Lucky children
14th Theme song from Katanga Jacques Loussier Katanga
15th Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie Cat People (1982)
16 Mystic and Severe Ennio Morricone Man to Man (1967)
17th The Devil's Rumble Mike Curb / The Arrows Devil's Angels
18th Zulus Elmer Bernstein The final offensive
19th Tiger tank Lalo Schifrin Raiding party gold
20th Un Amico Ennio Morricone The perfect blackmail
21st Eastern Condors Sherman Chow Gam-Cheung Dung fong tuk ying
22nd Rabbia e Tarantella Ennio Morricone Allonsanfan (1974)

Background and story

Documentaries

The Canadian television documentary The Real Inglorious Bastards (2012) by director Min Sook Lee reports on real anti-Nazi fighters. Two emigrants from Germany and the Netherlands were trained OSS agents from the US War Department and, together with a deserted Austrian Wehrmacht officer , organized the so-called "Operation Greenup", which included attacks on 26 trains. Similar to how at the end of the film SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) hands over his weapons to Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and surrenders as a prisoner, the Gauleiter of Tyrol-Vorarlberg Franz Hofer also behaved towards the OSS spy Frederick "Fred" Mayer . This was an emigrated, German-born Jewish American who was born in Germany in 1921 and as a spy / soldier belonged to the "Real Inglorious Bastards". After he was arrested by the Nazis, he was tortured by them by being hung upside down and flogged. He was supposed to betray spies and allies, but resisted. A medical officer who knew the responsible Gauleiter well freed him from the cell. He had recently saved his life as he tried to stop the torture. In a large room high-ranking Nazi officers were sitting at a table and eating, including Franz Hofer. He had received an order from Hitler to develop Innsbruck into a fortress and to defend it to the last man. Fred Mayer was finally able to dissuade him from this plan and persuade him to surrender. Similar to the film, Hofer surrendered his weapons to OSS agent Frederick Mayer and became his prisoner before the American troops arrived on the scene.

The documentary Killing Nazis (2013), which also refers to Inglourious Basterds , presents a Jewish emigrant from Austria who belonged to the Hagana and who, together with other trained fighters, executed Austrian SS and Gestapo members shortly after the end of the war .

Cinematic allusions

Tarantino in the Golden Book of Bad Schandau

Chapter 1 plays through the introduction with Ennio Morricone music and the line "Once Upon A Time in Nazi-Occupied France" ("Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France") on the spaghetti western play me the song of death whose original English title is "Once Upon a Time in the West".

The pipe that Colonel Landa takes out of his mouth in Chapter 1 when the dairy farmer starts to lose his nerve is a calabash made from an S-shaped pumpkin with a yellow surface and an insert made of meerschaum , as Sherlock Holmes is famous for has made. Landa later referred to himself as a "detective". In the film, Colonel Landa simply uses the clichéd old German name of Hermann to address a number of German “henchmen” whose names are not familiar to him.

According to an article by Hanns-Georg Rodek in Die Welt, Quentin Tarantino alludes to historical models with different names: Aldo Raine is of the type and name of the Hollywood actor of the fifties, Aldo Ray . The name of Raines recruit Corporal Wilhelm Wicki is derived from the Austrian-Swiss actor and director Bernhard Wicki . Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz alludes to the Mexican actor of the same name . The character Fredrick Zoller imitates the life of Audie Murphy . The name Donnie Donowitz alludes to Lee Donowitz from True Romance , and the name of General Ed Fenech is an allusion to the actress Edwige Fenech . The Italian cover name Antonio Margheriti , which is used in the last chapter, is a direct homage to the Italian director of the same name, who made numerous B-movies in various genres, including some mercenary films , from the 1960s to 1990s .

Since Tarantino described himself as a fan of German cinema productions of the 1960s in an interview with Stern , the appearance of the names Winnetou and Edgar Wallace in the “Who am I” game in the tavern sequence is to be seen as an allusion to the film series in question.

In addition to these allusions, there are also numerous references to the real world of film at the time. The directors G. W. Pabst and Leni Riefenstahl are mentioned as well as comedian Max Linder and film star Danielle Darrieux . Shoshanna's cinema is showing Pabst's The White Hell from Piz Palü , replaced by Le Corbeau (Eng. The Raven ) by Henri-Georges Clouzot . Goebbels is allergic to the mention of Lilian Harvey , the leading actress of Glückskinder ( Lucky Kids ). Pola Negri , Brigitte Helm and Brigitte Horney as well as King Kong have to be guessed at the "Who am I" game in the tavern. German film star Emil Jannings is present at the premiere of Stolz der Nation . The “mini-documentary” about the flammability of celluloid contains an excerpt from Alfred Hitchcock's sabotage .

Cameo appearances

The Italian director Enzo G. Castellari can be seen for a brief moment in the last chapter. Samuel L. Jackson as the narrator and Harvey Keitel as the general on the phone have a vocal role, both of whom are familiar with Tarantino from previous films.

Tarantino's hands can be seen in the scene in which Bridget is strangled by Hammersmark. In his opinion, it often seems spurious "when someone is strangled in a film". He went on to say: “I didn't want to let any stuntman do the scene. It's about trust, and I wanted to control this situation one hundred percent myself. ”He can also be seen in the film-in-film segment Pride of the Nation and as the first scalped Nazi.

Bela B. can also be seen briefly as an usher in the cinema.

Alternative versions

The German version and the version shown on British television are approx. 50 seconds longer than the international version. The scene in the tavern when the Germans are playing card guessing and a soldier tries to guess his card with the label " Winnetou " on it is longer in the German version. In other countries this scene is available on Blu-Ray Disc in bonus material. The German cinema, DVD and BD version is the only one in which this scene was integrated into the film.

As English dialogues were synchronized into German in the German version, some changes had to be made. The dialogues in the scene between Aldo Raine, Wilhelm Wicki and Private Butz have been changed, since in the original Wicki interprets between German and English , but in the German version both parties speak German. In some French dialogues, the word anglais ("English") was replaced by allemand ("German"), for example in the scene in which Landa asks permission to switch to the respective language.

Two versions were sold in Russia . One was titled the "theatrical version" (киноверсия) , in this English and German dialogues were dubbed into Russian and the French and Italian dialogues were subtitled. The second version was called " Director's Cut " by the distributor (режиссерская версия) ; in this only the English dialogues were dubbed, and the German, Italian and French dialogues were subtitled in the same way as the US version. The Russian DVD contains both synchronizations, but the Russian Blu-Ray disc only contains the synchronization of the “Director's Cut”.

Title lettering

Movie logo with swastika in the original version

Section 86a of the Criminal Code makes the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations in Germany a punishable offense, including swastikas . By referring to Section 86 (3) StGB, this does not apply if the use of art or "similar purposes" serves. But since it was not certain whether z. For example, if film advertising with this type of label is also covered by the exemption, you did not want to take any legal risk. For example, the swastika that can be seen in the original letter "O" was removed from the title lettering of the film; Swastikas on helmets and in the aforementioned lettering on advertising posters have also been removed. The French DVD and BD artwork are processed identically so that no swastika appears in the title.

reception

Reviews

The reviews of the film in the media are different. Immediately after the premiere in Cannes, the BBC named Inglourious Basterds Tarantino's best film since Pulp Fiction ; Brad Pitt is "excellent". Empire magazine said Inglourious Basterds was undermining audience expectations on every corner. Michael Fassbender could become a star with this film. Empire even recommended an Oscar nomination for Christoph Waltz, which in the end actually came about and was also rewarded with the award. In addition, there are "two or three scenes that can compete with anything from Tarantino's career."

Lars-Olav Beier, on the other hand, wrote on Spiegel Online : “Tarantino starts with a total standstill - and then slowly slows down. Without any sense of timing, he rolls his story across the screen for 160 minutes. ”In the same magazine three months later, however, it was said:“ ... Inglourious Basterds contains the barely ironic statement that a masterpiece can be admired here - yes this time Quentin Tarantino has actually created something with the visual memory of an elephant, the subtlety of a steamroller and his genuine passion for world cinema, of which far more than the sum of the individual parts remains after the credits. "

According to Tobias Kniebe from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the film contains much more deeper truths than initially assumed. “There is language as a weapon, for example, which is far more dangerous than all assault rifles and baseball bats. The scalp-slicing 'Basterds', despite their dominance in the title, don't get away so well - sometimes the film almost loses sight of them. And when he is not allowed to give a great speech himself, the put on Hillbillie grin freezes on Brad Pitt's face a little unhappily. All the more the skill of the other actors, who are almost all multilingual, comes to the fore. ”For Verena Lueken from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , however, the film is more of a disappointment, for a long time anyway:“ The insane pressure under which Tarantino this The film was shot, and the hurry made the film not dense but rambling. "

Even before the shooting of Inglourious Basterds began, Tobias Kniebe of the Süddeutsche Zeitung stated: “All the German historians and commentators who were gasping for air at Tom Cruise and his Stauffenberg, who was very keen to be correct - it will be with 'Inglourious Tear up Basterds' on the spot in shock. And maybe that's exactly the plan. ”The statement was taken up in the journal The Hollywood Reporter and the Washington Post , among others .

Georg Seeßlen sees Tarantino's film as “a fantasy of revenge that doesn't care about historical reality, because for Tarantino the cinema has always been the better reality anyway. This insolence to simply ignore the story has never been seen before in a film ”.

While he praises the cast and Tarantino recognizes technical mastery, says Jens Jessen in the time , Tarantino was abusing the Nazis "for a film aesthetics beyond all moral intent. We might still care less. But the fate of the Jews is also being abused - and we shouldn't be indifferent to that. The most brutal thing about the film is its frivolity. It's all just a bloody joke to him. "

The average rating of the reviews of Rotten Tomatoes is 88% (as of August 2016). The same goes for the Metacritic site , where the film received “generally positive reviews”.

Awards and nominations

Christoph Waltz, Cannes 2009

Christoph Waltz received the Actor Award of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009 for the role of Hans Landa , the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor , the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor , the Screen Actors Guild Award and the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as the German media prize Bambi in the category "International Film".

The film was also nominated for the Palme d' Or, the most important award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Quentin Tarantino was nominated for this film at the Golden Globe Awards 2010 in the categories of Best Director , Best Film (Drama) and Best Screenplay, but could not win any of the coveted trophies for himself.

The film was nominated for a total of eight Oscars in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Original Screenplay , Best Supporting Actor , Best Editing , Best Cinematography , Best Sound and Best Sound Editing .

In 2016, Inglourious Basterds ranked 62nd in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating of particularly valuable .

literature

  • Georg Seeßlen : Quentin Tarantino against the Nazis. Everything about Inglourious Basterds. Bertz + Fischer Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86505-192-9 .
  • Quentin Tarantino : Inglourious Basterds: The Screenplay , Luchterhand Collection, ISBN 978-3630621791
  • Sabrina Geilert, Juliane Voorgang: "Once upon a time ..." historical authenticity - Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds: a cinematic rejection of the dominance of the factual? Narrative history transformations through fairy tales and fairy tale motifs. In: Sonja Georgi u. a. (Ed.): History transformations. Media, processes and functionalizations of historical reception. transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2815-9 .
  • Lara Waldhof: Re-counting - reevaluating - upset. History rewriting in Life is Beautiful and Inglourious Basterds . In: Susanne Pedarnig, Lara Waldhof (ed.): Films about the Shoah . studia verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-902652-22-5 .
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  • Eva C. Huller, Christoph Huber: The cinema defeats the Nazis - Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual historical staging 'Inglourious Basterds' . In: Praxis Deutsch 39 (2012) 236, pp. 54-62, ISSN  0341-5279 .

Web links

Commons : Inglourious Basterds  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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