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.
"Kino", the name of the British operation to kill the German officers, is the German word for "movie theater".
Col. Hans Landa:
As of this moment, both Omar and Donowitz should be sitting in their very seats we left for them, 0023 and 0024 if my memory serves, explosives still around their ankles, still ready to explode and your mission, what some would call a terrorist plot...
In the opening credits for the film within the film Stolz der Nation, the name Joseph Goebbels is misspelled "Goebbles".
Both the opening and closing credits change fonts numerous times, displaying typefaces seen in a variety of earlier and subsequent Tarantino films.
English, German, French, Italian
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