Colonel Landa’s first name is Hans in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Christoph Waltz plays Colonel Hans Landa, an SS officer known for investigation, manipulation, and multilingual interrogation. The character is introduced in the opening chapter while investigating a French dairy farmer suspected of hiding Jewish refugees.
Landa’s nickname, the “Jew Hunter,” reflects how other characters view his reputation, although the film presents him as a calculating officer who uses information and leverage rather than simple brute force. His conversations are central to the film’s suspense.
Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the performance. Hans Landa is fictional, and the film’s alternate-history plot should not be read as a conventional reconstruction of the Second World War.