"(DISTANT RUMBLING)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(MEN SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "While I'm very familiar with you and your family," "I have no way of knowing if you are familiar with who I am ." "Are you aware of my existence?" "Yes." "This is good ." "Now, are you aware of the job I've been ordered to carry out in France?" "Yes." "Please tell me what you've heard ." "I've heard that the Führer has put you in charge of rounding up the Jews left in France who are either hiding or passing for Gentile ." "The Führer couldn't have said it better himself." "But the meaning of your visit, pleasant though it is, is mysterious to me." "The Germans looked through my house nine months ago for hiding Jews and found nothing ." "I'm aware of that." "I've read the reports of this area." "But like any enterprise, when under new management, there is always a slight duplication of efforts," "most of it being a complete waste of time, but needs to be done nevertheless." "I just have a few questions, monsieur LaPadite ." "If you can assist me with answers, my department can close the file on your family." "Now, before the occupation , there were four Jewish families in this area, all dairy farmers like yourself." "Doleracs, Rollins, the Loveitts and the Dreyfuses." "Is that correct?" "To my knowledge, those were the Jewish families among the dairy farmers." "Herr Colonel , would it disturb you if I smoked my pipe?" "(CH UCKLES) Please , monsieur LaPadite , this is your house, make yourself comfortable." "Now, according to these papers, all the Jewish families in this area have been accounted for except the Dreyfuses." "Somewhere in the last year it would appear they've vanished ." "Which leads me to the conclusion that they've either made good their escape or someone is very successfully hiding them ." "What have you heard about the Dreyfuses, monsieur LaPadite?" "Only rumors ." "I love rumors !" "Facts could be so misleading , where rumors, true or false, are often revealing ." "So , monsieur LaPadite , what rumors have you heard regarding the Dreyfuses?" "(CLEARS TH ROAT)" "Again , this is just a rumor, but we heard the Dreyfuses had made their way into Spain ." "(MATCHSTlCKS SCRAPING)" "So , the rumors you've heard have been of escape?" "(AGREES IN FRENCH)" "Yes." "Having never met the Dreyfuses, would you confirm for me the exact members of the household and their names?" "(CLEARS TH ROAT)" "There were five of them ." "The father, Jacob ." "Wife, Miram ." "And her brother, Bob ." "How old is Bob?" "Thirty, 31 ." "Continue ." "And the children ," "Amos and Shosanna." "Ages of the children?" "(SIGHS)" "Amos was nine or 1 0 ." "And Shosanna?" "And Shosanna was" "18 or 19 ." "I'm not really sure." "Well , I guess that should do it." "(ZIPPER CLOSING)" "However, before I go, could I have another glass of your delicious milk?" "But of course." "Monsieur LaPadite , are you aware of the nickname the people of France have given me?" "(SIGHS)" "I have no interest in such things." "But you are aware of what they call me." "I'm aware." "What are you aware of?" "(THAN KING IN FRENCH)" "That they call you "The Jew H unter."" "Precisely." "I understand your trepidation in repeating it." "Heydrich apparently hates the moniker the good people of Prague have bestowed on him ." "Actually, why he would hate the name "the Hangman" is baffling to me." "It would appear he has done everything in his power to earn it." "Now I , on the other hand , love my unofficial title precisely because I've earned it." "The feature that makes me such an effective hunter of the Jews is, as opposed to most German soldiers ," "I can think like a Jew where they can only think like a German ." "(CHUCKLING) More precisely, a German soldier." "Now, if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and the predatory instinct of a hawk." "But if one were to determine what attributes the Jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat." "The Führer and Goebbels' propaganda have said pretty much the same thing ." "But where our conclusions differ, is I don't consider the comparison an insult." "Consider for a moment the world a rat lives in ." "It's a hostile world , indeed ." "If a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?" "I suppose I would ." "Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them?" "Rats spread disease." "They bite people." "Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago." "I propose to you any disease a rat could spread , a squirrel could equally carry." "Would you agree?" "(AGREES IN FRENCH)" "Yet, I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?" "No." "Yet, they're both rodents, are they not?" "And except for the tail , they even rather look alike, don't they?" "It's an interesting thought, Herr Colonel ." "However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel ." "If a rat were to walk in here, right now, as I'm talking would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk?" "Probably not." "I didn't think so." "You don't like them ." "You don't really know why you don't like them ." "All you know is you find them repulsive." "Consequently, a German soldier conducts a search of a house suspected of hiding Jews." "Where does the hawk look?" "He looks in the barn , he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar, he looks everywhere he would hide." "But there are so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide." "However, the reason the Führer has brought me off my Alps in Austria and placed me in French cow country today is because it does occur to me." "Because I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity." "May I smoke my pipe as well?" "Please , Herr Colonel , make yourself at home." "Now, my job dictates" "that I must have my men enter your home" "and conduct a thorough search before I can officially cross your family's name off my list." "And if there are any irregularities to be found , rest assured they will be." "That is unless you have something to tell me that makes the conducting of a search unnecessary." "I might add , also, that any information that makes the performance of my duty easier will not be met with punishment." "Actually, quite the contrary." "It will be met with reward ." "And that reward will be, your family will cease to be harassed in any way by the German military during the rest of our occupation of your country." "You're sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?" "Yes." "You're sheltering them underneath your floorboards, aren't you?" "Yes." "Point out to me the areas where they're hiding ." "Since I haven't heard any disturbance," "I assume, while they're listening , they don't speak English ." "Yes." "I'm going to switch back to French now, and I want you to follow my masquerade." "ls that clear?" "(SN I FFLES)" "Yes." "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SHUSHING)" "It's the girl ." "(SOBBING)" "(EXCLAlMS)" "(PANTING)" "Au revoir, Shosanna !" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "ALDO:" "Ten-hut!" "My name is Lieutenant Aldo Raine." "And I'm putting together a special team , and I need me eight soldiers." "Eight Jewish American soldiers." "Now, you all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon ." "Well , we'll be leaving a little earlier." "We're going to be dropped into France dressed as civilians." "Once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhacking guerrilla army, we're going to be doing one thing and one thing only." "Killing Nazis." "I don't know about you all , but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains , cross 5 , 000 miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fucking airplane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity." "Nazi ain't got no humanity." "They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hating , mass-murdering maniac and they need to be destroyed ." "That's why any and every son of a bitch we find wearing a Nazi uniform , they're going to die." "Now, I'm the direct descendent of the mountain man J im Bridger." "That means I got a little lndian in me." "And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance." "We will be cruel to the Germans ." "And through our cruelty, they will know who we are." "And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled , dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us." "And the German won't be able to help themselves but imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels and the edge of our knives." "And the German will be sickened by us." "And the German will talk about us." "And the German will fear us." "And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us that they are tortured with ." "Sound good?" "ALL:" "Yes, sir!" "That's what I like to hear." "But I got a word of warning for all you would-be warriors." "When you join my command , you take on debit." "A debit you owe me, personally." "Each and every man under my command owes me 1 00 Nazi scalps." "And I want my scalps." "And all y'all will get me 1 00 Nazi scalps taken from the heads of 1 00 dead Nazis." "Or you will die trying !" "(SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(INTERCOM BUZZING)" "(KLIEST SPEAKING GERMAN ON INTERCOM)" "(KLIEST SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(BUTZ SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(BASTERDS LAUGHING)" "Hey, Hirschberg ." "Send that Kraut sarge over." "HIRSCHBERG :" "You ." "Go ." "Sergeant Werner Rachtman ." "Lieutenant Aldo Raine." "Pleased to meet you ." "You know what "sit down" means, Werner?" "Yes." "Then sit down ." "How is your English , Werner?" "Because if need be, we got a couple of fellows who can translate." "Wicki here, an Austrian-Jew, got the fuck out of Munich while the getting was good ." "Became American , got drafted , come back to give y'all what for." "Another one up there you might be familiar with ." "Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz." "Heard of him?" "Everybody in the German Army has heard of H ugo Stiglitz." "(BASTERDS LAUGHING)" "MALE NARRATOR:" "The reason for Hugo Stiglitz's celebrity among German soldiers is simple." "As a German-enlisted man , he killed 13 Gestapo officers." "Instead of putting him up against a wall , the High Command decided to send him back to Berlin to be made an example of." "Needless to say , once the Basterds heard about him , he never got there." "(GASPING)" "Sergeant H ugo Stiglitz?" "Lieutenant Aldo Raine." "These are the Basterds." "Ever heard of us?" "We just want to say we're a big fan of your work." "When it comes to killing Nazis..." "(MAN GROANING)" "... I thinkyoushow great talent." "And I pride myself for having an eye for that kind of talent." "But your status as a Nazi killer is still amateur." "We all come here to see if you want to go pro." "(BASTERDS LAUGHING)" "Can I assume you know who we are?" "You're Aldo the Apache." "(BASTERDS WHOOPING)" "Werner, if you heard of us, you probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-taking business." "We in the killing Nazi business, and , cousin , business is a-booming ." "HIRSCHBERG :" "(LAUGHING) Oh , yeah ." "Now, that leaves two ways we can play this out." "Either kill you or let you go." "Whether or not you're going to leave this ditch alive depends entirely on you ." "Up the road a piece, there's an orchard ." "Besides you , we know there's another Kraut patrol fucking around here somewhere." "If that patrol were to have any crack shots, that orchard would be a goddamn sniper's delight." "So if you ever want to eat a sauerkraut sandwich again , you got to show me on this here map where they are." "You got to tell me how many they are, and you got to tell me what kind of artillery they're carrying with them ." "(SCOFFING)" "You can't expect me to divulge information that would put German lives in danger." "Well , now, Werner, that's where you're wrong , because that's exactly what I expect." "I need to know about Germans hiding in trees ." "And you need to tell me." "And you need to tell me right now." "Now, just take that finger of yours and point out on this here map where this party is being held , how many is coming and what they brought to play with ." "I respectfully refuse, sir." "(BATTAPPING)" "Hear that?" "Yes." "That's Sergeant Donny Donowitz." "You might know him better by his nickname." "The Bear Jew." "Now, if you heard of Aldo the Apache, you got to have heard about The Bear Jew." "I heard of The Bear Jew." "What did you hear?" "Beats German soldiers with a club ." "He bashes their brains in with a baseball bat, what he does." "And , Werner, I'm going to ask you one last goddamn time, and if you still respectfully refuse," "I'm calling The Bear Jew over." "He's going to take that big bat of his, and he's going to beat your ass to death with it." "Now, take your Wiener-schnitzel-licking finger, and point out on this map what I want to know." "Fuck you ." "And your Jew dogs." "(BASTERDS LAUGHING)" "(BASTERDS APPLAU DING)" "Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that." "Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to going to the movies." "Donny!" "DON NY:" "Yeah?" "Got us a German here who wants to die for country." "Oblige him ." "(BAT TAPPING)" "(CONTL NUESTAPPING)" "(BASTERDS CHEERING)" "Did you get that for killing Jews?" "Bravery." "(BASTERDS EXCLAIMING)" "Yeah !" "BASTERD 1 :" "Oh , no !" "BASTERD 2:" "Oh , no !" "Donny!" "BASTERD:" "Yeah , Donny!" "About now I'd be shitting my pants if I was you ." "(LAUGHING)" "Teddy Fucking Williams knocks it out of the park !" "Fenway Park is on its feet for Teddy Fucking Ballgame !" "He went yard on that one, on to fucking Lansdowne Street!" "You !" "Damn it, Hirschberg !" "Donny, bring that other one over here." "Alive !" "Get the fuck up !" "Batter up ." "You're on deck !" "Two hits." "I hit you , you hit the ground ." "English?" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "ALDO:" "Wicki ." "Ask him if he wants to live." "(BOTH SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Tell him to point out on this map the German position ." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(BASTERDS LAUGHING)" "Ask him how many Germans ." "(BOTH SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Around about 1 2." "What kind of artillery?" "(BOTH SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Now, when you report what happened here, you can't tell them you told us what you told us." "They'll shoot you ." "They're going to want to know why you so special , we let you live." "So tell them , we let you live so you could spread the word through the ranks what's going to happen to every Nazi we find ." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Now that you've survived the war, when you get home, what you going to do?" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "WlCKl :" "He's going to hug his mother." "(SNIFFS)" "Well , ain't that nice?" "Ask if he's going to take off his uniform ." "(WlCKl SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(BUTZ SPEAKING GERMAN)" "WICKI :" "He's going to burn it." "Yeah , that's what we thought." "We don't like that." "See , we like our Nazis in uniforms." "That way you can spot them ." "Just like that." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "But you take off that uniform , ain't nobody going to know you's a Nazi ." "And that don't sit well with us." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "So I'm going to give you a little something you can't take off." "You know, Lieutenant, you're getting pretty good at that." "You know how you get to Carnegie Hall , don't you?" "Practice." "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(EXCLAIMS)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(LAUGHS)" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(SIGHS)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(CH UCKLES EXCITEDLY)" "(EXHALES)" "(SPEAKS FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHING)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHS EXClTEDLY)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(BOTH SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(OFFLCER EXCLALMS)" "(officers CHATTERING)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(EXHALES)" "(CHUCKLES)" "(LAUGHS)" "(SAYING GOODBYE IN FRENCH)" "(DRIVER SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(CAR APPROACHING)" "(BRAKES SCREECH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHING)" "(GOEBBELS LAUGHING)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(GOEBBELS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(FREDRICK LAUGHS)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(PANTING)" "(BRAYING)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(TRANSLATING IN FRENCH)" "(TRANSLATOR SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(COUG HS)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(TRANSLATOR SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(TRANSLATES IN GERMAN)" "(GOEBBELS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(TRANSLATING IN GERMAN)" "(SCOFFS)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(CHUCKLES)" "(LAUGHING)" "(TRANSLATING IN FRENCH)" "(FREDRlCK SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "HANS:" "Au revoir, Shosanna !" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHING)" "(HANS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(FREDRlCK SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(HANS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(FREDRlCK SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(GOEBBELS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(HANS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(CH UCKLES)" "(GASPING)" "(GOEBBELS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHS)" "(TRANSLATOR SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SHOSAN NA SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(GOEBBELS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SCOFFS)" "MALE NARRATOR:" "At that time , 35 millimeter nitrate film was so flammable that you couldn't even bring a reel onto a streetcar." "Hey, you can't bring those here on a public vehicle." "They're films, ain't they?" "Yes." "Then they're flammable." "Go on , hop off." "MALE NARRATOR:" "Because nitrate film burns three times faster than paper." "Shosanna has a collection of over 350 nitrate film prints." "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "MAN :" "Right this way, Lieutenant." "(CLEARS TH ROAT)" "Lieutenant Archie H icox reporting , sir." "General Ed Fenech ." "At ease, H icox." "Drink?" "If you offer me a scotch and plain water, I could drink a scotch and plain water." "That-a-boy, Lieutenant." "Make it yourself like a good chap , will you?" "The bar is in the globe." "Something for yourself, sir?" "Whiskey." "Straight." "No junk in it." "It says here that you speak German fluently." "Like a Katzenjammer Kid ." "And your occupation before the war?" "I'm a film critic." "List your accomplishments." "Well , sir, such as they are," "I write reviews and articles for a publication called Films and Filmmakers, and I've had two books published ." "Impressive." "Don't be modest, Lieutenant." "What are their titles?" "The first book was called" "Art of the Eyes, the Heart and the Mind:" "A Study of German Cinema in the '20s." "And the second one was called Twenty-Four Frame da Vinci." "It's a subtextual film criticism study of the work of German director G .W." "Pabst." "What should we drink to, sir?" "Well ..." "Down with H itier." "All the way down , sir." "Yes." "Are you familiar with German cinema under the Third Reich?" "Yes ." "Obviously, I haven't seen any of the films made in the last three years, but I'm familiar with it." "Explain it to me." "Pardon , sir?" "Well , this little escapade of ours requires a knowledge of the German film industry under the Third Reich ." "Explain to me U FA under Goebbels ." "Goebbels considers the films he's making to be the beginning of a new era in German cinema." "An alternative to what he considers the Jewish-German intellectual cinema of the '20s, and the Jewish-controlled dogma of Hollywood ." "How's he doing?" "Frightfully sorry, sir." "Once again?" "You say he wants to take on the Jews at their own game." "Well , compared to, say, Louis B ." "Mayer, how's he doing?" "Quite well , actually." "Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years." "But Louis B ." "Mayer wouldn't be Goebbels' proper opposite number." "I believe Goebbels sees himself closer to David O ." "Selznick." "Brief him ." "Lieutenant H icox, at this point and time I'd like to brief you on Operation Kino ." "Three days from now" "Joseph Goebbels is throwing a gala premiere of one of his new movies in Paris." "What film , sir?" "The motion picture is called Nation's Pride." "In attendance at this joyous Germatic occasion will be Goebbels , Goring , Bormann , and most of the German H igh Command including all high ranking officers of both the SS and the Gestapo , as well as luminaries of the Nazi propaganda film industry." "The master race at play?" "Basically, we have all our rotten eggs in one basket." "The objective of Operation Kino , blow up the basket." "And like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth ." "Jolly good , sir." "An American Secret Service outfit that lives deep behind enemy lines will be your assist." "The Germans call them the Basterds." "The Basterds." "Never heard of them ." "Whole point of the Secret Service , old boy, you not hearing of them ." "But the Jerries have heard of them , because these Yanks have been them the devil ." "You'll be dropped into France, about 24 kilometers outside of Paris." "The Basterds will be waiting for you ." "First thing , you'll go to a little village called Nadine." "In Nadine, there's a tavern called La Louisiane." "There you'll rendezvous with our double agent." "She'll take it from there ." "She's the one who is going to get you into the premiere." "It'll be you , her, and two German-born members of the Basterds." "She's also made all the other arrangements you're going to need ." "How will I know her?" "I suspect that won't be too much trouble for you ." "Your contact is Bridget von Hammersmark." "Bridget von Hammersmark?" "(CH UCKLING) The German movie star is working for England?" "Yes, for the last two years now." "One could even say that Operation Kino was her brainchild ." "Indeed ." "Got the gist?" "I think so, sir." "Paris when it sizzles." "You didn't say the goddamn rendezvous is in a fucking basement." "I didn't know." "You said it was in a tavern ." "It is a tavern ." "Yeah , in a basement." "You know, fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties." "N umber one being , you're fighting in a basement." "What if we go in there and she's not even there?" "We wait." "Don't worry." "She's a British spy." "She'll make the rendezvous ." "Stiglitz, right?" "That's right, sir." "I hear you're pretty good with that." "You know, we're not looking for trouble right now." "Simply making contact with our agent." "Should be uneventful ." "However, the off chance I'm wrong , things prove eventful ," "I need to know we can all remain calm ." "I don't look calm to you?" "(LAUGHS)" "Well , now that you put it like that, I guess you do." "This Jerry of yours, Stiglitz, not exactly the loquacious type, is he?" "ls that the kind of man you need?" "Loquacious type?" "Fair point, Lieutenant." "So you all get in trouble in there, what are we supposed to do?" "Make bets on how it all comes out?" "If we get into trouble, we can handle it." "But if trouble does happen , we need you to make damn sure no Germans , or French , for that matter, escape from that basement." "If Frau von Hammersmark's cover is compromised , the mission is kaput." "Speaking of Frau von Hammersmark, whose idea was it for the deathtrap rendezvous?" "She chose the spot." "Isn't that just dandy?" "Look, she's not a military strategist." "She's just an actress ." "You don't got to be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't want to fight in a basement." "She wasn't picking a place to fight." "She was picking a place isolated and without Germans ." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHING)" "(ORDERING IN GERMAN AN D FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(MAN LAUGHING)" "(FEMALE SERGEANT SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(GLASS SHATTERING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH AN D GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN SOFTLY)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(CORK POPPING)" "Mmm ." "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING FRENCH)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(ALL CH EERING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(ALL TOASTING IN GERMAN)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(STAMMERING)" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(LAUGHING)" "(THAN KING IN GERMAN)"