- (In French) What's a bird's nest?
- A bird's nest is what a sniper would call a bell tower. It's a high structure, offering a 360 degree view. Very advantageous for marksmen.
— Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl)
16 seconds sound clip from the Inglourious Basterds movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:45:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
(In French) No, the mademoiselle is not my girlfriend.
(In French) Can you write 'Amour Babette'?
(In French) So you're a war hero. What did you do?
(In French) I was alone in a bell tower in a walled off city.
- It was myself and a thousand rounds of ammo, in a bird's nest against three hundred enemy soldiers.
(In French) Maybe they'll make a film about your exploits.
(In French) Well, that's just what Joseph Goebbels thought. So he did and called it Nation's Pride.
[...]