Compared to the 1971 movie, this one is crap.

The war is being promoted as a sport, and life's are expendable .

that Moment when you realize that Matthias Schweighöfer und Till Schweiger in so einem Film mitgespielt haben.... man guckt ganz entspannt The handmades tale schaut auf die amerikanischen Schauspieler und BAAAMMM Till und Matthias WAAAAMMM und schon ertappt man sich dabei englische Trailer des Films anzusehen nur um auf die Stelle zu warten wenn Till englisch redet.... wow I am so dump 😂

He will shoot your plane down, whether you survive is up to you.

Goering was his apprentice , one of them

About a movie a born rich pilot who thought WW I in the air was sports. Great movie. One small question.. Why bother with an accent if you are going to speak english anyway? like.. Lena headey

Actually it was an Oberuesel rotary engine, a direct copy of the L:eRhone.

Josef Jacobs for one was a pilot who re-engined his Dr1. But they used Clerget rotary engines, the 130 horsepower types. Now in hindsight I seem to recall that maybe Bentley did indeed manufacture Clerget engines under license. Jacobs would offer a case of champaign to anyone procuring a serviceable Clerget engine for him. But Voss's plane was powered by a 110 hp LeRhone.

True, it's both. Yeah, he cleaned it up but it was nothing fancy, neither cared for such stuff (other then paintwork) and made sure it worked well and got in and out. Both died as they got trapped.

I'm no Richthofen expert but I highly doubt Richthofen & Brown interacted three times in their lives as the movie depicts. Brown was ill that day, didn't want to fly, but did, and fate put him behind Richthofen. Whether he shot him down is debatable, for I think it highly probable as well that ground fire could've hit him. But he was losing his edge, never should have been that low.

I thought since it was a German production the movie would be interesting. But pure Hollywood dribble. Amazing that a movie can be made on such a grand scale but lost with cheesey details. The actor playing Manfred was good, but to have Voss as some big lumberjack type was wrong. And the Bentley engine thing? Why not tell the truth. Voss's Dr1 was factory stock. But still....not a bad movie, like the era of the early 20th century. Nicely filmed.

Canadian pilot Roy brown shot the red baron down, and when he landed his plain he was shot by Australian ground troops

still know one knows for sure

because no one knows who really shot him down

True, though he may have been an un-flintching killer (any knight back in the days of old was) he was a man of honor in the end. And he also grew up a bit, at first he saw it as a game but soon found it wasn't. This film is still romantisized though. Fly Boys, liked the musis and some flying scenes but it was a joke based on a real story and the real guys would'ive hated it!

You should be ashamed, if you were a true red baron fan you would know that this movie is so historically inaccurate to a degree that it can be labeled as pure fiction.

@mitchtickler Hey everybody ! If you want to see what I consider an excellent and extremely realistic fictional epic about German WW I flying aces you should check the film from the 1960s called "The Blue Max" with Max von Sydow, George Peppard and Ursula Andress (who we used to call "Ursula Undress" for obvious reasons). "The Blue Max" was made long before digital effects and yet has very convincing Berlin period street scenes and dogfights in the air. Watch it.

@stevobath Accurate details there. Also, a lot of Fabians and "progressives" in both Britain and the United States (the Webbs, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger) embraced the eugenics model as a matter of "humane public health". German science was just mainstream "Western science" on the question of eugenics. The Nazis also borrowed the idea from their communist, social democratic and social Darwinist (corporate/capitalist) antecedents.

I love this movie so much:))

so touching movie:'(

@Abseil11 Agreed. Too many errors to list. The planes were all CGI anyway, so why wasn't Lanoe Hawker flying a DH2? Did they think him being in an old 'pusher' would make it appear an unequal fight? The refined Hawker was nothing like the screaming, thuggish bearded actor but they turned M. von Richthofen into a pretty-boy pacifist who's against killing - as you say, the opposite of reality. As for all the unbelievable invented encounters with Brown, what can you say? A VERY poor film.

Does anybody know where I could buy the warp of Red Baron which you can see in this film ? Mail me please if you know, thank you very much ;-)

@unusmultorumm 'ILLOGICAL turn of events' :)

@Tobyreinel18 First to use planes in a real war setting were the Italians in 1911 during the ITALO- TURKISH WAR. They were also the first to use 'ariel boming/bombardment ' tactics'. A leading BRITISH Air Core Captain predicted that planes would be more important than was ever thought, He was suggesting aeriel recon photos as early as 1909. The Germans used Zepplins in the 1st raids over England. America were relativly backwards in Aero tech not really gaining ground till 1917

@EvilKorbinDallas Thats the problem with wars. There is always a loser in some way although Germany seemed to have done alright by these wars.They are Europes biggest economy for starters. Im not a PC person and I totally agree with you that there are too many immigrants..I know as I live in England where we are swamped by non Europeans sponging off our system and these people dont want to intergrate.As for Germany losing land thats tough! Its good to have a debate on these things!

Might be a good film and makes the flyers look gallant etc, but killing millions on a mass scale for the sake of the few bods in power is surely insane. Your average soldier etc on all sides were led or rather misled into thinking they were fighting for great causes. Fact was most soon learnt the real truth in the trenches & just wanted to get back home.Oh & Im not knocking the Germans in particular. Us Brits had fools running the armed forces too,& our royals are German by blood!

Might be a good film and makes the flyers look gallant etc, but killing millions on a mass scale for the sake of the few bods in power is surely insane. Your average soldier etc on all sides were led or rather misled into thinking they were fighting for great causes. Fact was most soon learnt the real truth in the trenches & just wanted to get back home.

@EvilKorbinDallas Proud that your country was to blame for the two must destructive wars ever? Or are you being ironic?

@Motorhead749 I do believe that when he was shot down the Brittish gave him a funeral with full military honors. Stuff like that just doesnt happen any more

@EvilKorbinDallas To bad they lost first and second world war

@EvilKorbinDallas just remember who won

@Motorhead749 The turks never commited genocide on armenians. If they did why didnt they just shot the armenians where the stood instead of trying to relocate them to syria? So no you dont know where there coming from.The armeanians started ethnicly cleansing the regions they wanted because they were only 1/6 of the pop in there one regions and wanted to create greater armenia. If it was genocide why was only eastern anatolia armenians relocted and not the ones in constantinople or syria?

At the end of his life Richthofen was so famous that the german government told him to stay out of the air-fights. But he refused. Fighting in the air was what he loved. Nobody could talk him out of that. So they had to think of something else to keep him out of fight. So they promoted him, wellknowing that this new post would keep him away from the fights. He got a lot of men to command, but never stopped fighting. Although he was a very important leader at that post, he kept on fighting.

Manfred v. Richthofen was THE man in WW1. A hero for his fellow soldiers and a feared and respected enemy for the allies. Germany had THE best Airplanes during the whole war. The started with the idea of putting planes, which was a brand new thing, into war. First they developed Albatros I, then II and finally III. For each "I" a new pair of wings were added. So the III had six wings, three on each side. Everytime a new pair of wings were added, the British copied that style.

@FrozenArts I see your point. The whole skewed and retarded thing was about that, not the offspring would have been Luftwaffe fighter ace btw.

@984GR Hehe, well I never meant that I was glad the Red Baron got shot down, it was just an interesting point of view that I thought about... If he wasn't in a triplane I don't think he would have ever been shot down :P

@FrozenArts Sorry that was my father using my profile. :)

@984GR Lol actually in the real world, people with certain genes excel in certain skills. Did you know that Manfred had a brother named Lothar who was an ace too? Whoa..how did that happen? Your father probably made dumb comments too because as they say, it runs in the family... lmao

@FrozenArts That has to be the most retarded and skewed thinking I have ever read. Do you seriously think that the skill of being a pilot goes to your offspring? Can you be any more stupid? Oh wait, you can.

well maybe it's actually good the Red Baron got shot down. I mean, they made alot of cool video games for it because of him lol And just imagine how much destruction would take place if he had a son fighting as a pilot in WWII...

right there with you my friend watching this makes my heart swell with pride for my home of germany ! may those heroes never be forgotten!

@dadadablub Is the German version a 're-shoot' or did they just Dub the German voices over the English Dialogue and acting? I suspect the later... There is also a French version but it is a Dub as well... Shame... !

Soldiers don't murder, they kill. Looks like a good movie. I prefer dubbed movies than subtitles just for the fact I want to sit back and enjoy the movie and not read it. However I do have several movies that I have to watch that way and have been okay with it. The Red Baron was the enemy but a great pilot and has to be given a lot of credit. Whether he was shot down by Canadian Roy Brown or the ANZACS on the ground he was a legend.

@mitchtickler You're probably right. I think "foreign" films should be made in their own language. It ads much more character to what they are saying.

@Splakang89 Hartmann was the greatest ace in history, not doubt, but yes, he was shot down, at least once, maybe more. I read his biography. He was shot down by an american in a Mustang. He recalled being in his parachute and seeing the Mustang turn toward him. He thought he was going to be shot in his parachute, but the american flew by and waved.

he at the beat at shoot down people

Does he get shot down by an American instead of a Canadian in this version?

GREAT FILM!!!! I highly recommend this film to anyone interested in history movies! Very well shot and good play by the actors! As for the search of truth.......in a war there is none, its what war really is, death without reason!!!!

@Nightingale2814 Listen, I watched the movie and its great, it actually depicts with 90% accuracy the essence of the man the Baron used to be according to his comrades and people who knew him. He was a gentleman and not a butcher! I have to say, very well done film and really nice to watch!

Oh, come on, it looks so melodramatic. Worse that Passchendale. And that movie was atrocious