Inglourious Basterds 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1941, Austrian SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. He boasts his nickname, “The Jew Hunter,” then offers LaPadite amnesty if he will give up the Dreyfuses. LaPadite tearfully admits that they are hiding under his floor. Landa’s men massacre the Dreyfuses, but one of them, young Shosanna, escapes unharmed. Three years later, U.S. Army lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the “Basterds,” a black ops commando unit tasked with instilling fear among Nazis in occupied France by killing and scalping them. The group includes Sergeant Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz, privates first class Smithson Utivich and Omar Ulmer, rogue German sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, and Austrian-born translator Corporal Wilhelm Wicki.

Raine leaves a swastika mark on surviving German soldiers so they cannot hide their Nazi affiliations after the war. Shosanna now operates a cinema in Paris under the name Emmanuelle Mimieux and meets Fredrick Zoller, a famed German sniper set to star in the German propaganda film Stolz der Nation. Infatuated with “Emmanuelle,” Zoller convinces Joseph Goebbels to hold the film’s premiere at her cinema. Landa, the premiere’s head of security, interrogates Shosanna. She plots with her Afro-French lover and projectionist, Marcel, to kill the German leaders by burning down the cinema with her collection of highly flammable nitrate films.

British Commando Lieutenant Archie Hicox, a former film critic and fluent German speaker, is recruited for Operation Kino, an attack on the premiere with the Basterds. Disguised as German officers, Hicox, Stiglitz, and Wicki meet with German film star Bridget von Hammersmark, an undercover Allied agent, in an occupied town at a tavern unexpectedly full of German soldiers. They sit down and play the German card game Wer bin ich? Together. Hicox’s unusual accent catches the attention of Wehrmacht sergeant Wilhelm and SS Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellström, who joins Hicox’s group when his suspicions are aroused.

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