Inglourious Basterds
“Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...”
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres
Drama, Thriller, War
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Inglourious Basterds performed
Budget
$70.0M
Worldwide Gross
$321.5M
Gross Profit
$251.5M
Return
4.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$46M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
LT. Aldo Raine
Brad Pitt
LT. Aldo Raine
Shosanna
Mélanie Laurent
Shosanna
COL. Hans Landa
Christoph Waltz
COL. Hans Landa
SGT. Donny Donowitz
Eli Roth
SGT. Donny Donowitz
LT. Archie Hicox
Michael Fassbender
LT. Archie Hicox
Bridget von Hammersmark
Diane Kruger
Bridget von Hammersmark
Fredrick Zoller
Daniel Brühl
Fredrick Zoller
SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
Til Schweiger
SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
CPL. Wilhelm Wicki
Gedeon Burkhard
CPL. Wilhelm Wicki
Marcel
Jacky Ido
Marcel
PFC. Smithson Utivich
B.J. Novak
PFC. Smithson Utivich
PFC. Omar Ulmer
Omar Doom
PFC. Omar Ulmer
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