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The true story of one of World War One's deadliest air aces comes to the screen in this historical drama.

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ProducerNikolai Muellerschoen

EAN5060085366120

eBay Product ID (ePID)73787383

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleRed Baron

ActorTomas Koutnik, Lena Headey, Hanno Koffler, Matthias Schweighofer, Joseph Fiennes, Maxim Mehmet, Til Schweiger, Tomas Ibi, Albert Franc

DirectorNikolai Muellerschoen

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2009

FeaturesWidescreen, Making Of\Making of Visual Fx\Deleted Scenes\Outtakes\Music Video\Original Theatrical Trailer

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

GenreWar

Run Time102 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureGermany

ReviewsTelegraph.co.uk - Brilliant, The Telegraph - Brilliant, BBC 5 Live - Spectacular, The Times - Tremendous

Consumer AdviceContains occasional sight of bloody injury and brief sexualised nudity

Additional InformationThe true story of one of World War One's deadliest air aces comes to the screen in this historical drama. Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighoefer) became fascinated with flying when he was 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 opponent 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 Kaete Otersdorf (Lena Headey), a military nurse who has devoted her life to helping those wounded by war. Manfred becomes deeply infatuated with Kaete, 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 nearly eight 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.

Movie/TV TitleRed Baron

Sound sourceDolby Digital

ScreenwriterNikolai Muellerschoen