The Red Baron
Heroes rise. Empires fall. Legends endure.
6.6 / 10
120 minutes
2008-03-29
German
DE
Actors :
Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey, Joseph Fiennes, Volker Bruch, Julie Engelbrecht, Maxim Mehmet, Steffen Schroeder, Hanno Koffler, Tino Mewes, Ralph Misske, Axel Prahl, Gitta Schweighöfer, Jan Vlasák, Jiří Laštovka
Description
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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Wuchak
6/23/2021, 3:58:29 PM
***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 ...