You’ll recall that a few months ago we reported on the “film within the film,” of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.” Titled, “Pride Of The Nation,” the meta-picture is a propaganda feature within QT’s ambitious WWII tapestry that stars Daniel Brühl’s German hero soldier character, Fredrick Zoller and was actually directed (or at least the few scenes that appear in ‘Basterds’) by actor/filmmaker Eli Roth, who also stars in ‘Basterds’ as a ruthless American Jew battalion officer. Got that? Good.
As we wrote back then, “essentially, Brühl’s character in ‘Basterds’ is known and celebrated for killing many Russian soldiers in combat and the movie re-enacts his own sniper abilities as Leni-Riefenstahl-like German propaganda cinema.” Well, Tarantino Archives naturally has the meta poster for the meta-film that was created by ‘Basterds’ art department (they just recently unveiled another meta-poster for Diane Kruger’s character earlier this week).
Yes, it’s called, “Stolz Der Nation,” cause that’s “Pride of the Nation” in German and yes, that’s Brühl’s ‘Inglourious’ character in all his glory.It’s neat stuff and this picture is the front cover of a six-page booklet that appears in ‘Basterds’ when they screen the, oh, it’s very meta, you’ll just have to see the film…(or read the script).