The Red Baron (2008)

29/03/2008 (DE)•Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War•2h

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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.

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Matthias Schweighöfer
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Til Schweiger
Werner Voss
Lena Headey
Käthe
Joseph Fiennes
Captain Roy Brown
Volker Bruch
Lothar von Richthofen
Julie Engelbrecht
Ilse
Maxim Mehmet
Leutnant Sternberg
Steffen Schroeder
Leutnant Bodenschatz
Hanno Koffler
Leutnant Lehmann

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A review by Wuchak

5.0

Written by Wuchak on Nov 29, 2019

***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 Fall”). Does “The Red Baro...