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Inglourious Basterds — Where the Story Was Set

2 real historical locations · France

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Quentin Tarantino's alternate-history thriller set in occupied France, following a group of Jewish-American soldiers hunting Nazis and a Jewish cinema owner plotting her own revenge. Deliberately revisionist, it asks what cinema might do if it could rewrite history — and delivers a spectacularly violent answer.

CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning France.

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Nazi-occupied France

A group of Jewish-American soldiers terrorize the Nazi occupation of France. Set across rural and urban occupied France.

The French Resistance (Résistance) conducted thousands of operations against the German occupation, including assassinations, sabotage, and intelligence gathering. The SOE supported over 400 agents in France, of whom ...

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Paris — cinema

The climax — Operation Kino, the assassination of the Nazi high command at a Paris cinema premiere.

Paris was occupied from June 14, 1940 to August 25, 1944. During that time it became a centre of Nazi cultural and political life, with German high command entertaining themselves at Paris theatres and restaurants whi...

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