The Red Baron

The Red Baron (German: Der Rote Baron) is a German biopic about the legendary World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen. In 1906, a young Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is out hunting deer when he encounters an aeroplane overhead. Enchanted, he follows it on horseback, waving his arms like a bird. Ten years later, Lieutenant Richthofen is serving as a fighter pilot with the Imperial German Air Service along the Wester... more

The Red Baron (German: Der Rote Baron) is a German biopic about the legendary World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen. In 1906, a young Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is out hunting deer when he encounters an aeroplane overhead. Enchanted, he follows it on horseback, waving his arms like a bird. Ten years later, Lieutenant Richthofen is serving as a fighter pilot with the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the funeral of an Allied pilot, Richthofen and his fellow pilots Werner Voss (Til Schweiger)and Friedrich Sternberg encounter a squadron of enemy planes led by Captain Lanoe Hawker. Richthofen shoots down Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes). After pulling Brown out of the wreckage of his plane, Richthofen assists Nurse Käte Otersdorf (Lena Headey) with applying a tourniquet to the Canadian's wounded leg. Later, after successfully shooting down and killing "the notorious Captain Hawker,"... less