Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Raine leads the Basterds, a group of Jewish-American soldiers operating behind German lines during the Second World War. Pitt’s performance combines the character’s exaggerated Appalachian manner, military authority and darkly comic confidence.
The film is an alternate-history war drama set in Nazi-occupied Europe. Its story follows several intersecting groups, including Raine’s unit, a German film star recruited as an agent, and Shosanna Dreyfus, who plans revenge against Nazi leaders.
Christoph Waltz plays Colonel Hans Landa, while Eli Roth plays Sergeant Donny Donowitz, another member of the Basterds. Michael Fassbender plays Lieutenant Archie Hicox. Their roles are sometimes confused because the film uses a large international ensemble, but Brad Pitt is specifically Aldo Raine.