Inglourious Basterds, Part IV

4. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) is the best known of the few feature films of Max Linder, to whom Shosanna devotes a film festival. A predecessor to Charlie Chaplin in many respects, the French-Jewish Linder was writer/director/star of hundreds of slapstick shorts in the 1910s, appearing always as his dapper character Max. Failing to achieve comparable success in Hollywood after a traumatic tour of duty in WWI, Linder and his wife committed suicide in Paris on Halloween, 1925.