Glourious Photos of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

Schindler’s List It Ain’t:

The spellcheck-defying Inglourious Basterds, premiering this month in Cannes, has been described as Pulp Fiction meets The Dirty Dozen meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, set in Nazi-occupied France. Brigitte Lacombe invades the set of the latest from Quentin Tarantino, who provides an exclusive scene from his script for the May issue of Vanity Fair.

photographs by Brigitte Lacombe May 2009

Brad Pitt as the Nazi-hunting Lieutenant Aldo Raine.

Diane Kruger as the stunning German screen actress Bridget von Hammersmark.

Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus.

Femme fatale Kruger lights up in character.

From left, Laurent, Christopher Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, Omar Doom as P.F.C. Omar Ulmer, Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth as Sergeant Donny Donowitz, Kruger, and Pitt.

Pitt in a sinister moment on the set of Inglourious Basterds, at Studio Babelsberg, in Potsdam, Germany.