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The Red Baron

Year:

2008

Duration:

106 min | 129 min (long version)

Genres:

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Nikolai Müllerschön

Awards:

2 nominations

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 2008-04-10

Filming Locations: Czech Republic

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $13,931 (USA) (21 March 2010)

Gross: $36,569 (USA) (11 April 2010)

Cast

Actor

Character

Til Schweiger

The Red Baron

Tomás Koutník

Young Manfred von Richthofen

Tomás Ibl

Young Lothar von Richthofen

Albert Franc

Young Wolfram von Richthofen

Matthias Schweighöfer

Manfred von Richthofen

Maxim Mehmet

Sternberg

Hanno Koffler

Lehmann

Richard Krajco

Hawker

Joseph Fiennes

Brown

Steffen Schroeder

Bodenschatz

Lukás Príkazský

Kirmaier (as Lukás Príkazký)

Lena Headey

Käte

Ondrej Volejník

1st German Soldier

Jirí Wohanka

2nd German Soldier

Iveta Jirícková

Redhead Whore

Vlastina Svátková

Blonde Whore

Axel Prahl

General Hoeppner

Gitta Schweighöfer

Kunigunde von Richthofen

Volker Bruch

Lothar von Richthofen

Brano Holícek

Wolfram

Julie Engelbrecht

Ilse

Jan Vlasák

Major von Richthofen

Luise Bähr

Sophie

Irena Máchová

Clare

Robert Nebrenský

Röuber

Ralph Misske

Menzke

Tino Mewes

Wolff

Jacob Erftemeijer

General Hoeppner's Aide

Josef Vinklár

Hindenburg

Ladislav Frej

Emperor Wilhelm

Brian Caspe

Officer

Denny Ratajský

Wounded Soldier

Pavel Myslik

Richthofen's Chauffeur (as Pavel Myslík)

Václav Jílek

French Soldier

Adam Misík

Boy on Haystack #1

Vladislav Rousek

Boy on Haystack #2

Barbora Ujfalusi

Girl on Haystack

Patrik Plesinger

Doering

Jirí Lastovka

Udel

Rostislav Novák Jr.

Loewenhardt

Zdenek Pecha

Steinhauser

Jirí Kout

Mohnicke

Jan Unger

Surgeon

Igor Chmela

Wounded Soldier on Stretcher

Karsten Kaie

Anthony Fokker

Radek Bruna

Soldier (uncredited)

Gérard Robert Gratadour

Engine-Driver (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Val Kilmer was initially considered for the title role, even though during filming he would have been in his late 40s, at least 20 years older than the real Manfred von Richthofen ever lived to be.

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The financing for the film came exclusively from well-to-do private individuals living in the state of Baden-Württemberg and was raised by the Stuttgart-based film financing and production house Niama Film, which was established by director Nikolai Müllerschön with partners Thomas Reisser, Roland Pellegrino and Dan Maag.

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Til Schweiger was 42 when he played Werner Voss who didn't even live to be 21.

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Goofs

When the "boys" are taxing the Curtiss Jenny around and one of them hits the haystack - the closeup of him sitting in the airplane, there is a radio antenna on the fuselage just forward of the vertical fin.

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Manfred von Richthofen and Roy Brown never met in combat or otherwise until 21 April 1918.

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German soldiers are seen marching through Lille, France, in February 1917, with the spiked pickelhaube helmet. Actually, for front line soldiers the spikes were removed after the first few months of the war. By 1917 most German infantrymen had the new Stahlhelm 'coal-scuttle' helmet.

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Quotes

Manfred von Richthofen: I don't want them to be surprised. I want them to be scared.

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Emperor Wilhelm: I take it the ladies are all over you.

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Manfred von Richthofen: And whatever side we fought, we all knew the risks we took. I wanted to be the best, I wanted to win and I thought I won. But I can see now, Kate. I see we've turned our world into a damn slaughterhouse. And I'm already too big a part of it. They're using my photograph to give hope where there is none. They use my name to feign immortality, whereas the reality is annihilation.

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