The Red Baron PG-13
Heroes rise. Empires fall. Legends endure.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Monterey Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey & Joseph Fiennes | |
Performer: | Maxim Mehmet & Volker Bruch | |
Directed by | Nikolai Müllerschön | |
Screenwriting by | Nikolai Müllerschön | |
Composition by | Stefan Hansen & Dirk Reichardt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
One can see how its overtly soapy, lowest-common-denominator antics would play comfortably in various climes.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
A stodgy but good-looking war film, with many stirring scenes of aerial combat.
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Florida Times-Union
Rating: 1.5/4 --
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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Toronto Star
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Embraces embellishment and outright falsehood in search of soap opera.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 2/4 --
His plane may be red, but the dialogue is purple.
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Globe and Mail
THE RED BARON is a handsome, meticulously detailed epic emphasizing the character even more than the legendary exploits of Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
Los Angeles Times
Alas, this BARON is barren, more dead than red.
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Geekweek
Product Description:
The true story of one of World War One's deadliest air aces comes to the screen in this historical drama. Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) becomes fascinated with flying when he's just a boy, and as a young man he joins the German army and becomes part of their budding air force. Flying in a squadron with his best friend, Werner Voss (Til Schweiger), von Richthofen is a pilot with a great talent for aerial battle, but he also has a sense of honor and fair play, and he and his cohorts often pay tribute to fallen opponents by dropping wreaths over the wreckage of their planes. When von Richthofen and Voss discover a Canadian pilot, Capt. Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes), who has been stranded in German territory, they rescue the flier rather than leave an enemy soldier to die, and while bringing him to safety Manfred meets Käte Otersdorf (Lena Headey), a military nurse who has devoted her life to helping those wounded by war. Manfred becomes deeply infatuated with Käte, but while she is also taken with him, she cannot abide his open embrace of the blood sport of war, and even as he becomes one of Germany's most decorated pilots, downing countless enemy planes, he comes to understand the true horror of war and the consequences of his actions. Von Richthofen gains an even greater perspective on war when he encounters Capt. Brown one last time. DER ROTE BARON (aka THE RED BARON) was shot in both German- and English-language versions, with the same cast appearing in both.