Europe, 1916. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (MATTHIAS SCHWEIGHÖFER) is,at the age of just 24, the crack pilot of the German aerial combatforces – a legend in his own time, a hero at home and a man both fearedand respected by the enemy, including Allied Forces’ Canadian pilot,Captain Roy Brown (JOSEPH FIENNES). Von Richthofen and his fellowofficers, Lieutenants Voss (TIL SCHWEIGER), Sternberg (MAXIM MEHMET)and Lehmann (HANNO KOFFLER) see their duels in the sky as tactical,almost sportsmanlike, challenges that, at least at first, obscure theirview of the horrors of the battlefields below.
