Inglourious Basterds (2009) : Tarantino’s Revisionist Masterpiece Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 epic, Inglourious Basterds
To avoid confusion: the 2009 film is a remake of the 1978 Italian cult film Quel maledetto treno blindato (English title: The Inglorious Bastards ). That film follows a group of American soldiers in Europe who are wrongly accused of a crime and must fight to clear their names. Tarantino has openly acknowledged borrowing the title (with a tweak) as an homage, not a narrative remake. Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa
Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus, and Michael Fassbender as Archie Hicox. Release Date: August 21, 2009 (USA). Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus