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Trailer for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Brad Pitt 'will be killing Nazis'

The film – inspired a 1978 Italian war movie – follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to spread terror among the Nazi occupiers.

If the trailer is anything to go by Tarantino's version will be as violent and bloodthirsty as his previous films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

In the teaser Pitt, playing the commander of the unit Lt Aldo Raine, tells his troops: "We are going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis."

Speaking above a threatening rock soundtrack, he continues: "We will be cruel to the German. And through our cruelty they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disembowelled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us."..

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)