Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. It was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France, beginning in October 2008. The title of the film was inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie The Inglorious Bastards, but it is not a remake of that film, being set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, and depicting a plan to assassinate the Nazi leadership.
Tarantino has repeatedly stressed that despite its being a war film, the movie is his "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography". In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II "macaroni combat" sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns), as well as French New Wave cinema.
Inglourious Basterds was accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d'Or and had its world premiere there in May. It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz.
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Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Produced by: Lawrence Bender
Written by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editing by: Sally Menke
Studio: A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
Distributed by: (United States: The Weinstein Company), (International: Universal Pictures)
Release date: (Cannes: May 20, 2009), (United Kingdom: August 19, 2009), (Australia: August 20, 2009), (United States: August 21, 2009), (Poland: September 11, 2009)
Country: United States
Language: French, English, German, Italian
