von Richthofen, Friend and Enemy." Cast In credits order. Matthias Schweighöfer as Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen Lena Headey as Nurse Käte Otersdorf Til Schweiger as Leutnant Werner Voss Volker Bruch as Oberleutnant Lothar Freiherr von Richthofen Maxim Mehmet as Leutnant Friedrich Sternberg Hanno Koffler as Leutnant Lohmann Tino Mewes as Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff Steffen Schroeder as Oberleutnant Karl Bodenschatz Axel Prahl as General der Kavallerie Ernst von Hoeppner Joseph Fiennes as "Captain" Roy Brown "RCFC" Tomáš Koutník as Young Manfred von Richthofen Tomáš Ibl as Young Lothar von Richthofen Albert Franc as Young Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen Richard Krajčo as Major Lanoe Hawker VC RFC Lukáš Příkazký as Oberleutnant Stefan Kirmaier Gitta Schweighöfer as Kunigunde von Richthofen Branislav Holiček as Leutnant Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen Julie Engelbrecht as Ilse von Richthofen Jan Vlasák as Major Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen Luise Bähr as Sophie Irena Máchová as Clara Robert Nebřenský as Feldwebel Räuber Ralph Misske as Menzke Josef Vinklář as Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg Ladislav Frej as Kaiser Wilhelm II Patrik Plesinger as Hauptmann Doering Jiří Laštovka as Oberleutnant Ernst Udet Rostislav Novák as Oberleutnant Erich Loewenhardt Zdeněk Pecha as Leutnant Werner Steinhäuser Jiří Kout as Leutnant Eberhard Mohnicke Karsten Kaie as Anthony Fokker Production A shooting schedule from 10 July 2006 to 3 October 2006 took place in the Czech Republic at Prague and surrounding areas as well as locations in France and Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In Postproduction, CGI was carried out by PIXOMONDO. To improve its chances on the international market, The Red Baron was filmed by Niama Film in the English language, although it is a German production depicting Germans. With an estimated budget of 18 million euros, it is one of the most expensive and at the same time lowest-grossing films in German history. Fewer than 100,000 saw the film in the first week, causing the film to miss the Top 3. In the second week it dropped to No. 10. In the third week the film was gone from the top ten. Reception The Red Baron premiered on 31 March 2008 in Berlin and was released a week later in the German cinemas but was quite controversial in Germany, where glorification of war heroes has become taboo. The reviews after the first public performances of the film were mainly negative, criticizing in particular the high level of historical inaccuracy. The fictitious love story between Richthofen and