What is the name of the fictional movie theater in Inglourious Basterds?

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The fictional movie theater in Inglourious Basterds is called Le Gamaar.

Le Gamaar is the Paris cinema owned and operated by Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jewish film exhibitor living under an assumed identity. The theater becomes the setting for the film’s climactic operation, in which Shosanna and her projectionist, Marcel, plan to trap Nazi leaders attending a premiere of the propaganda film Nation’s Pride.

The theater’s name appears as part of the film’s deliberately stylized, alternate-history world. Inglourious Basterds combines real historical figures and events with fictional characters and an invented resistance plot. The cinema therefore functions as more than a backdrop: it is Shosanna’s workplace, her refuge, and the location from which she attempts to turn film itself into a weapon.

Le Gamaar is easy to confuse with a real Paris cinema or with the fictional Nation’s Pride screening. Nation’s Pride is the film being shown inside the theater, while Le Gamaar is the theater itself. The name is also sometimes written with slightly different capitalization, but “Le Gamaar” is the canonical answer used for the venue.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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