Top 50 Inglourious Basterds Movie Details
While searching the internet for Inglourious Basterds movie facts, I found some interesting little known details. Obscure enough that most people could miss it, I want to make you a favor by creating ordered lists with the most intriguing hidden details.
Most of them are not blatantly obvious to be observed at first sight, so take your time and read carefully. We have extensive definitions that accurately explain any behind the scene meaning or famous dialogues.


Trivia
I have collected all the famous movie trivia questions with answers from Reddit and other sources. They can be very useful in quizzes or games, or simply to learn more information. Most of the fun Inglourious Basterds details are suitable for kids.
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Til Schweiger, who played Hugo Stiglitz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) was born and raised in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany and had always refused roles that required him to put on a Nazi uniform. He only agreed to this role because he got to kill Nazis, rather that portray one.
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Lt. Aldo Raine wears the First Special Service Force's insignia of crossed arrows on his collar and red arrowhead shoulder patch. This was an elite US-Canadian commando unit in WWII and the precursor to modern special forces for both nations.
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When the 'Bear Jew' makes his debut you can hear him hit his bat against the wall 28 times. 28 in Hebrew is "??" meaning "strength".
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At the movie premiere in Inglorious Basterds (2009), Brad Pitt is introduced as stuntmant "Enzo Girolami". This was the birth name of the director of original The Inglorious Bastards (1978), Enzo G. Castellari.
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During the bar scene while the German soldiers play Who Am I? several names on their cards are code names for infamous double agents (explanation in comments).
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The reasons Goebbels snaps at the mention of Lilian Harvey is because she smuggled her Jewish friends escape Germany, and performed for Allied troops.
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The hands that chokes Diane Kruger were actually belonged to Quentin Tarantino not Christopher waltz. Quentin admitted that he wanted the choking by hands needs to be *realistic* .
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A swastika appears and then disappears during the Frederick Zoller movie, Stolz der Nation.
Easter Eggs
Finding Easter Eggs in movies is one of my favorite hobbies. Hidden objects, characters, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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Mike Meyers' character briefs Michael Fassbender's character about an extraordinary plan to assassinate Hitler during a film screening at a small cinema. The operation is dubbed "Operation Kino". In German, Kino translated to English means cinema. -
One of the shots in the opening scene in Inglorious Bastards (2009) was a homage to a similar shot in the opening sc?ne of Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) -
The character Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) wields a bat adorned with multiple jewish refferences and people (like the star of david and the names of victims of the holocaust and persecution of the jews).
Hidden Details


" a leaf falls onto an Austrian-born, Jewish soldier, and its appearance mimics the yellow "Star of David" that Jewish people were forced to wear on the left side of their chest by the Nazis.
: Colonel Hans Landa says that the Basterds often wear German uniforms to ambush unsuspecting German soldiers. The next scene shows blood stains on the uniforms the Basterds are wearing when they conduct such an ambush, implying they were taken from previous victims
Lt. Aldo at the very beginning says "Any and every son-of-a--b**** we find wearin a Nazi uniform, there gonna die." And every one of the bastards that wore one for undercover, did.



The Bear Jew's bat in Inglorious Basterds (2009) is covered with the names of Jewish people who are trapped under Nazi rule, including Anne Frank.
Michael Fassbender's character Archie Hicox pretends to be in the film that Shosanna was playing at her movie theatre before Nation's Pride.



The Jew Hunter tells Aldo that 999 *point* 999 times out of a million, Aldo would be right. In German, large numbers are separated by periods, not commas.


Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) tenses his facial muscles and keeps his jaw trying to look Italian. This way he looks like Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in "The Godfather" (1972)




Col. Landa brings exactly three Nazi soldiers to trick the Deryfuses into thinking they're LaPadite's three daughters.



Oberst Landa congratulates the farmers cows. In french, this is a derogatory term for women and very insulting.


Shosanna doesn't speak German. When Landa first reappears at the restaurant and Zoller questions his intentions, she has no idea what they are discussing. She flinches in terror every time she hears her name because it's the only part she understands.


. Dieter Hellstrom was able to hear the strange accent of Archie Hicox because the song stopped playing on the gramophone when Archie Hicox started yelling at the soldier (until that time, music had been playing throughout the scene).
In the scene where Fredrick Zoller shoots and kills Shosanna Dreyfus, You can catch a glimpse of a shot from "Nation's Pride (Stolz der Nation)" where the actor playing Zoller is pointing his riffle at Shossan.



Inglourious Basterds Plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
I am pretty sure that you've watched Inglourious Basterds, maybe in a theater near you or on the small screen, but probably not many of the small details have taken your attention. Most of the previous facts are hidden for some reason, but still, there is plenty of randomly forgetten stuff that makes the movie unique and interesting. The more you know, the more fascinated you'll be about Inglourious Basterds and will watch it online, download or stream it again and again.
Genre | Adventure, Drama, War |
Director | Quentin Tarantino |
Main Actors | Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth |
IMDB score | 8.3 |