Welcome to Quentin Tarantino's World War II. Welcome to a world where historical reality gives way to the slightly brutal fairy tale narrative of one of the most controversial directors of our time. In the process, he claims that the poetics of Shameless Panchartes is probably closest to the mood of the film that made his name - the violent black comedy Pulp Fiction - Tales from the Underworld. The German soldiers hadn't yet stopped aching their feet after their daring invasion of Western Europe when, right in front of young Shosanna's eyes, German officer Hans Landa murdered members of her family. She narrowly escapes to Paris, where she hides under a new identity as a biographer.
Elsewhere in swastika-ridden Europe, an unusual military unit is forming under the leadership of American Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Its members are tasked not only with surviving in a territory full of Nazis and their minions, but also with destroying their elites in such a spectacular way as to spread fear and panic among them. They call themselves the Panchartes, and they are about to embark on a most difficult mission that could completely change the course of the war. A new German propaganda epic is about to premiere in a Parisian biograph, and many of the Nazi top brass (perhaps even Hitler himself) are to attend. The Panchartes will be tasked with infiltrating the event and showing the Third Reich bosses what it's like to be dead. What they don't count on, however, is that right under the light of the projector, the orphaned Shosanna is plotting her plan to avenge the deaths of loved ones, and that when one brilliant assassination plan collides with another, the result may be an even more brilliant failure.
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