If the film is intelligent and thoughtful, it is unfortunately lacking in energy and passion; it is more a somber, highly familiar reflection on warfare and its toll than an action movie.
The Red Baron
Heroes rise. Empires fall. Legends endure.
2008 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Nikolai Müllerschön
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.
Director and cast
- Nikolai Müllerschön Director
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- Til Schweiger as Werner Voss
- Lena Headey as Käthe
- Joseph Fiennes as Captain Roy Brown
- Volker Bruch as Lothar von Richthofen
- Maxim Mehmet as Leutnant Sternberg
- Steffen Schroeder as Leutnant Bodenschatz
- Hanno Koffler as Leutnant Lehmann
- Tino Mewes as Leutnant Wolff
- Ralph Misske as Menzke
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Drama about World War I flying aces never gets off the ground.
Unfortunately Muellerschoen's movie emphasizes empty grandeur over human drama.
His plane may be red, but the dialogue is purple.
The propaganda films produced by both sides in the '30s and '40s might've been objectionable for many reasons but at least they had the good sense to show real planes in action.
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