Rote Baron, Der

This is an excellent movie which indeed does not align with the image which has been forced upon us for years where you almost drown in the stereo types like these are the good and bad ones, the WW1 air battle... Full review

I was so eagerly awaiting to view this movie and finally had the chance yesterday. I really disappointed and with great sadness I see another opportunity go by to finally produce a quality movie about a German hero reaching a big... Full review

... to show a German war hero in a German movie. They tried to show Richthofen as a "politically correct" man with a 21st century pacifist attitude, not as the soldier he was. I was almost expecting the token black guy... Full review

It's a German version of that dreadful Hollywood flop "Flying Boy". Immediately after you sat down in a theater, you are overwhelmed by the generous usage of CGI , while being flabbergasted by total lack of any tenable plot.Although I... Full review

Too bad for all that effort put in the movie. German producer spend / raised some 18 Million Euros, to make a movie about THE flying ace of WWI - Der Red Baron. Why didn't they spend some money on... Full review

Few days ago I read an interview with Schweighöfer in which he's wondering why "The Red Baron" didn't get any subsidies. "Maybe they didn't like the script". They were right! And I don't think, the script was too controversial... I... Full review

I had the opportunity to see this film yesterday during a pre-screening in hamburg. Technically not yet perfect (in terms of grading, sound design and some effects) we saw the final cut. And I am truly pleasantly surprised. The film... Full review

It's in the strikingly mounted sequences of aerial combat -- with excellent visual f/x and the camera swooping around the open cockpits and Manfred's red-painted plane -- that pic does impress. Ten years later, in 1916, he's the leader of a top group of flyers, including best friend Werner Voss (Til Schweiger), who, out of respect, drop a wreath from the sky at the funeral of an enemy pilot. ... Full Review

Friday September 4 2009 by Allan Hunter STRANGE that in the week we remember the outbreak of Second World War, film distributors have chosen to release another First World War epic. ... Full Article

I don't know the German for "Chocks away!" but then writer-director Nikolai M?llersch? wouldn't care less if you did. All the characters in his biopic of the First World War German flying ace spik in ze accented English, mostly in... ... Full Article

Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (Eu18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron. ... Full Article

European co-productions used to be all the rage. Indeed, back in the 1970s, if you wanted to make something more ambitious than a film about a local boy made good or done bad, it was the only way to get... ... Full Article

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 Schweighoefer) became fascinated with flying when he was a boy, and as a young man he... ... Full Article