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Aug 21, 2009 · Inglourious Basterds: Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth. 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.
- Quentin Tarantino
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Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 historical war comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.
- $321.5 million
- Quentin Tarantino
- $70 million
- Lawrence Bender
Aug 25, 2009 · The Austrian actor talks about his role as the Nazi colonel in Quentin Tarantino's film, working with the director and Brad Pitt, and the legendary strudel scene. He also shares his views on the character's psychology, motives, and legacy.
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―Christoph Waltz on his character
Christoph Waltz (kristɔf valts); born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian actor, who also holds German citizenship.
Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria. He is the son of German-born Johannes Waltz and Austrian-born Elisabeth Urbancic, set and stage designers. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers. His great-grandparents also worked in the theatre.
Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, performing at venues such as Zurich's Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Salzburg Festival. He became a prolific television actor. In 2000, he made his directorial debut, with the German-language television production Wenn man sich traut.
In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka "The Jew-Hunter". Clever, courteous and multilingual, but also self-serving, cunning, implacable, and murderous, the character of Landa was such that Tarantino feared he "might have written a part that was unplayable". Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public. In 2009, he began sweeping critics' awards circuits, receiving awards for Best Supporting Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2009. The following year, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
Christoph Waltz is fluent in German, French, and English and speaks all three of the languages in Inglourious Basterds (2009). Although Landa also spoke Italian in that movie, he stated on the Adam Carolla Podcast that he does not actually speak it in real life. He is his own voice-actor for German translations.
He has three adult children from a prior marriage, and is raising a young daughter with his wife, costume designer Judith Holste. Waltz currently maintains residences between New York, London, and Berlin.
Christoph Waltz is a dual citizen of both Austria and Germany. He considers himself Austrian, calling his German passport a "legal, citizenship law banality". His father held German citizenship, so he was born with German citizenship as well. He became an Austrian citizen after his Oscar win in 2010.
During a press conference he said: "I was born in Vienna, grew up in Vienna, went to school in Vienna, graduated in Vienna, studied in Vienna, started acting in Vienna – and there would be a few further Viennese links. How much more Austrian do you want?"
•Christoph Waltz's first week on set of Inglourious Basterds was also his first scene in the film.
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Aug 3, 2021 · Quentin Tarantino asked Christoph Waltz to hold back during the table read and not rehearse with the rest of the cast before filming Inglourious Basterds, a war movie based on real-life events. This helped create a sense of suspense and unpredictability for the audience, who never knew how Landa, the main villain, would react.
