Django Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Set in the Old West and Antebellum South, it is a highly stylized, heavily revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns, in particular the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci. The story follows a slave who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife.
Theatrical release poster
Clockwise from top left: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington, in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013
Django's valet costume was inspired by Thomas Gainsborough's oil painting, The Blue Boy (c. 1770).
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence as well as extended, colorful dialogue and references to popular culture.
Tarantino in 2015
Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez.
Tarantino in 2009
Tarantino at the French premiere of Django Unchained in January 2013
