Speak English! Does Bo Svenson Cameo In 'Inglourious Basterds' or Is Enzo Cazereli Just Too Italian?

News for detail nerds like ourselves. The Denver Examiner has an interview with “Inglorious Bastards,” Italian filmmaker Enzo G. Castellari, who directed the 1978 “version” of the film [ Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 “Inglourious Basterds” has nothing to do with that film other than using the title for mangled spelling inspiration and a basic, basic premise jumping-off point].

We know from a previous set-report that Castellari has a small cameo in Tarantino’s version as a Nazi (pictured above) but his description of the scene has us confused. Does original “Inglorious Bastards” ’70s action star Bo Svenson have a cameo too? Or is Castellari still not so gooda with the Englisha? [PC readers note, this in-poor-taste joke is actually taken from QT’s version of the script]. Minor, minor spoilers ahead.

“I play a Nazi General in the movie. In one scene we are in Paris, during the War, and I have to take a lady into a movie theater. Inside the theather there are all the big Nazis like Joseph Goebbles. They are there to see a new propaganda movie Stolz der Nation (‘The Pride of a Nation’) that actually is a movie inside our movie, directed by Eli Roth and played by Bo Svenson – my actor in the first “Inglorious Bastards.”

Wait, we thought Daniel Brühl was the star of “Pride Of The Nation.” And yes, indeed he is. So does that mean Svenson plays one of the American’s that Brühl’s sniper character offs? Possibly, huh? Either way it sounds like Svenson — known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s — has cameo (he also had one in “Kill Bill 2”)

That’s your quinkydink tidbit for the day for you to mull over. PS, don’t read the Examiner piece unless you want to inadvertently see some major spoilers. BTW, if you’ve never seen the original ‘Bastards,’ we wouldn’t really recommend it unless you love bad ’70s B-film trash. It’s just not really worth one’s busy time.