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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
Peterson says in the commentary that after the movie premiered internationally, people would ask him why they couldn't just let the crew come home safely. His answer was, "What they didn't understand was, this is a German movie about WWII. It can't have a happy ending."
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It would be different now, but in 70's when the movie was made, it was too close to the war to have a happy ending. This was one of the first German postwar movie to portray WW2 German soldiers in a sympathetic light.
Its only now, two generations later, that Germans are allowing themselves to laugh about the war.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/g...rious-basterds