A black gunslinger sets out to free his wife, the slave of a cruel plantation owner.

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Texas, 1858. Dr Schultz, a former German dentist who is now a bounty hunter, frees a slave named Django to help him identify and kill the three brothers Schulz is after. Once that is done, the two hatch a plan to save Django's wife from a cruel plantation owner in Mississippi, a particularly dangerous region for a free black man. Once they get there, nothing goes as planned...

As with Inglourious Basterds, where he changed the course of WWII by killing Hitler in a Paris movie theater, Quentin Tarantino takes on the delicate subject of slavery in the US in a similarly simplistic way. The result is semi-spaghetti western, semi-blaxploitation flick, where characters speak German or Italian, cite Alexandre Dumas and the Nordic mythology of the Niebelungen, where the soundtrack includes rap, Ennio Morricone and James Brown, the word “nigger” is used over 100 times, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson are absolutely brilliant. It's made to shock, but it's a fabulous movie!