The Red Baron (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Nikolai Müllerschön |
| Produced by |
Dan Maag Thomas Reisser Roland Pellegrino |
| Written by | Nikolai Müllerschön |
| Starring |
Matthias Schweighöfer Joseph Fiennes Til Schweiger Lena Headey |
| Cinematography | Klaus Merkel |
| Edited by | Christian Lonk |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures (non-U.S.) Monterey Media (U.S.) |
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Release date
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10 April 2008 |
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Running time
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123 minutes |
| Country | Germany United Kingdom United States France Czech Republic |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €18 million |
The Red Baron is a 2008 German biopic directed by Nikolai Müllerschön about the World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron". It was filmed in the Czech Republic, France and Germany, entirely in English to improve its international commercial viability.
In 1906, a young Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Tomáš Koutník) is out hunting deer, with his younger brother and younger cousin, Lothar and Wolfram, when they hear an aeroplane overhead. Enchanted, he follows it on horseback, waving his arms.
Ten years later, Lieutenant Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is serving as a fighter pilot with the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the funeral of an Allied pilot, whom they knew, Richthofen and his fellow pilots Werner Voss (Til Schweiger), Lieutenant Lehmann (Hanno Koffler) and Friedrich Sternberg (Maxim Mehmet) encounter a squadron of enemy planes led by Captain Lanoe Hawker. Richthofen shoots down Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes). After pulling Brown out of the wreckage of his plane, Richthofen assists Nurse Käte Otersdorf (Lena Headey) with applying a tourniquet to the Canadian's wounded leg.
Later, after successfully shooting down and killing Captain Hawker, Richthofen is awarded the Pour le Mérite and promoted to command his own private aerial Squadron. There, he is soon joined by his brother Lothar von Richthofen. He orders his men to avoid killing enemy pilots unless absolutely necessary and is dismayed when Lothar deliberately strafes and kills a British pilot who has already been forced into a landing.
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