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29/03/2008 Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War 1h 46m
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Heroes rise. Empires fall. Legends endure.

Overview

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.

  1. Nikolai Müllerschön

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Matthias Schweighöfer

    Baron Manfred von Richthofen

  2. Til Schweiger

    Werner Voss

  3. Lena Headey

    Käthe

  4. Joseph Fiennes

    Captain Roy Brown

  5. Volker Bruch

    Lothar von Richthofen

  6. Julie Engelbrecht

    Ilse

  7. Maxim Mehmet

    Leutnant Sternberg

  8. Steffen Schroeder

    Leutnant Bodenschatz

  9. Hanno Koffler

    Leutnant Lehmann

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2019-11-29
***Curiously unabsorbing account of the Red Baron***

The exceptional career of the ace-of-aces, Manfred Von Richthofen, is chronicled up to his death at 25 years-of-age on April 21, 1918.

“The Red Baron" (2008) comes in the tradition of similar WW1 fighter pilot flicks “The Blue Max” (1966), “Aces High" (1976) and “Flyboys” (2006). “The Blue Max” is an extraordinary melancholic epic while the realistic “Aces High” is good, but one-dimensionally mundane. The blockbuster-ish “Flyboys” is entertaining, but marred by comic book storytelling (think “Legends of the ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
German

Budget
$18,000,000.00

Revenue
$2,783,332.00

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