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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Where Inglourious Basterds says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Paris of the film was built in Germany: a studio, a pub set and a tiny café are the only real Paris.

Scenes and places

The interrogation at the LaPadite farm (1941)

Colonel Hans Landa questions a French dairy farmer about a missing Jewish family. He plays cat-and-mouse and switches to English so the family cannot follow.

Set in LaPadite dairy farm, near Nancy — A French dairy farmer is questioned by an SS colonel about a fugitive Jewish family.

The farm is a film set; the real location is a village in Saxony, Germany.

Filmed at Hertigswalde near Sebnitz, Saxony — Filming began here in September 2008; the exterior set of a French farmhouse was built near Sebnitz. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam — The interiors of the LaPadite farm were shot in the studio. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Basterds' ambush in occupied France

Lieutenant Aldo Raine leads his Jewish-American commando unit against German soldiers in occupied France, and his men leave marks on survivors so they cannot hide what they were.

Set in Ambush site in occupied France (no place named in the film) — A forest-side ambush point in occupied France; the film names no place.

Real ambush forts: a 19th-century Berlin fortress and a fort north-west of Paris.

Filmed at Fort Hahneberg, Berlin-Spandau — Shot here for part of chapter 2, 13-22 October 2008. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Fort de Cormeilles, Val-d'Oise — The second fort used for most of chapter 2. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The café where Shosanna meets Zoller

In Paris, Shosanna, now running a cinema under a false name, meets Fredrick Zoller, a German sniper starring in a propaganda film. He is taken with her, and that attention starts to shape her plans.

Set in Café, Paris — Shosanna, living as 'Emmanuelle Mimieux', is introduced to the German war hero Fredrick Zoller. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A corner bistro in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

Filmed at Bistrot La Renaissance, Rue Championnet / Rue du Poteau, Paris 18e — The café scene with Mélanie Laurent and Daniel Brühl was shot here. Coordinates are the street, not the building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The tavern La Louisiane

Lieutenant Archie Hicox and two Basterds, disguised as German officers, meet an undercover Allied film star in a crowded tavern. A card game and one slip in Hicox's accent make the room suspicious.

Set in Nadine, a fictional French village (tavern La Louisiane) — A tavern in an occupied town, unexpectedly full of German soldiers.

Named after the Paris hotel where Tarantino often stayed.

Filmed at Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam — The bar was a studio set; shooting it took three weeks. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Nauen, Brandenburg — Filming in Nauen until the end of October 2008, where a French pub set was built. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Shosanna's cinema and the premiere

Zoller persuades Goebbels to hold the premiere of his film at Shosanna's cinema. Landa, the head of security, questions her, and she plans an attack with her projectionist Marcel.

Set in Shosanna's cinema, Paris — The Paris cinema where the German film premiere is to be held.

A film set; the Paris cinema never existed as a single real building here.

Filmed at Studio Babelsberg (Marlene-Dietrich-Halle), Potsdam — Interiors of the cinema were shot in the studio. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Görlitz Untermarkt — Paris street scenes (not stated which) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Paris (one day of street filming) — Paris street scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Bad Schandau, Saxony — Not stated Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Hans Landa — An Austrian SS colonel nicknamed 'The Jew Hunter'.
• Shosanna Dreyfus — A young Jewish woman who escapes in 1941 and later runs a cinema in Paris.
• Aldo Raine — A U.S. Army lieutenant who leads the Basterds.
• Archie Hicox — A British commando lieutenant who speaks fluent German.