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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as Baron Manfred von Richthofen
as Werner Voss
as Käthe
as Captain Roy Brown
as Lothar von Richthofen
as Ilse
as Leutnant Sternberg
as Leutnant Bodenschatz
as Leutnant Lehmann
as Leutnant Wolff
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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 Blu…
