The first image of Brad Pitt from his nazi adventure film 'Inglourious Basterds,' and please don't go hollering because we got the spelling right! Photo Credit: The Weinstein CompanyOctober 18, 2008, (Sawf News) - The first image of Brad Pitt from his nazi adventure film Inglourious Basterds and please don't go hollering because we got the spelling right!
Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the Quentin Tarantino written and directed film, which features an international ensemble cast that assembled on location in Germany last week.
Included in the cast are Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
The film begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). 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 Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.
Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...
The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as in Berlin, Saxony and Paris and will be released worldwide in 2009. Tarantino wants to have the film ready for Cannes Film Festival in May 2009.
Inglourious Basterds crew includes editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing the film. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's executive producers.
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