Inglourious Basterds (English, Hungarian, DVD)

This Quentin Tarantino offering must not be confused with the 1978 Italian film of similar name, viz The Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino's picture received no less than eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Only one Academy Award was won, however... and nobody can dispute Christoph Waltz's Best Supporting Actor victory for his flawless performance here as super-Nazi Hans Landa (and to think that Leonardo de Caprio had also been a serious contender for the part. Sheesh...!)

The story comprises two simultaneous though unrelated plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French teenage Jewish cinema proprietor, Shoshana Dreyfus (Melanié Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). In regard to the latter: it was Tarantino's aim to make the WWII adventure epic to eclipse all similar films that have gone before, i.e. Guns of Navaronne; The Secret Invasion; The Dirty Dozen; Where Eagles Dare, etc. Many of the hand-picked cast members are unknown to us... and that makes for far greater a reality impact. Similarly, while the Americans speak English: the French speak French, and the Germans speak German. But the film is so gripping that one hardly even notices the subtiutles after the first minute or so.

The action is both violent and explicitly gory in parts, but the director was aiming at making the adventure/WWII picture to end all adventure/WWII pictures! We've already had The Guns of Navaronne; The Secret Invasion; The Dirty Dozen, and – the silliest of the lot – Where Eagles Dare. So why not now something far more realistic...from both sides' point of view?

Tarantino had wanted the great Ennio Marricone for the complete musical acore, but alas; Mr M was already heavily committed to another project at the time. He did, however, manage to compose eight short compositions; all of which are featured on the sound-track.

This film is already a landmark... and will, in years to come, probably come to be revered amongst the great action classics. Very positively recommended!

In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich.

Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

General

Studio:	Weinstein Company
Release date:	December 2009
Movie released:	2009
Directors:	Quentin Tarantino
Actors:	Brad Pitt • Diane Kruger • Christoph Waltz • Melanie Laurent
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	2 hours, 27 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen
Languages:	English • Hungarian
Subtitles:	Arabic • Danish • Finnish • Hungarian • Icelandic • Norwegian • Swedish
Age restriction:	18 NLV
Categories:	DVD > War DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	X93-83V-BNE-1
Barcode:	5050582713374

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