Le Gamaar is the fictional movie theater owned by Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. The theater becomes the setting for the film’s climactic premiere and Shosanna’s planned act of revenge.
Shosanna inherits the Paris cinema after fleeing the massacre of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Years later, she operates the theater under the name Emmanuelle Mimieux, keeping her identity hidden from the Nazi officers connected to the earlier crime.
The premiere of a German propaganda film, Nation’s Pride, brings senior Nazi leaders into Le Gamaar. Shosanna and Marcel prepare a nitrate-film plot designed to trap the audience inside the theater and destroy it by fire.
Le Gamaar is not a real Paris cinema. The film uses the invented location to connect cinema, memory, propaganda, and resistance. The title Nation’s Pride is also fictional within the story, although its director Fredrick Zoller is a character in the film.