In which Tarantino film does the character 'Hans Landa' appear?

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Hans Landa appears in Quentin Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds.

Landa is the movie’s central antagonist, an Austrian SS officer assigned to the Sicherheitsdienst during the Nazi occupation of France. He is nicknamed “the Jew Hunter” because of his talent for tracking Jewish families in hiding. The character’s polished manners and multilingual charm make him especially unsettling: his courtesy masks ruthless opportunism.

Christoph Waltz played Landa in the 2009 film, a role that transformed his international career. Waltz won the Best Actor prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and later received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with several other major awards.

The film is an alternate-history war drama rather than a strict historical account. Its title deliberately uses the misspelling “Inglourious,” while “Basterds” is also stylized differently from standard English spelling. Landa’s shifting loyalties near the ending reveal that personal survival and ambition matter more to him than Nazi ideology.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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