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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 fantasy adventure film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Valentina Cortese.
Mar 10, 1989 · The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Directed by Terry Gilliam. With John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed. An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Bent on saving a besieged European city from the clutches of a Turkish Sultan and his soldiers, Baron von Munchausen, the incredible aristocrat of fabrication, embarks on an enchanting odyssey to the four corners of the world--and beyond.
During the "Age of Reason" of the late 18th century, the Turkish army lays siege to a European city where a theater production about the extraordinary heroics of famed German aristocrat Baron ...
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With Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter. This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen ( / ˈmʌntʃaʊzən, ˈmʊntʃ -/; [1] [2] [a] German: [ˈmʏnçˌhaʊzn̩]) is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on baron Hieronymus Karl ...
The mind of a child is wonderfully literal. And one of the charms of seeing "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was to see some of the baron's other impossible adventures, looking for all the world as if they had really happened, thanks to extraordinary special effects.
Packed frame to frame with special effects, mischievous wit, and colorful performances—including a young Sarah Polley as the Baron’s no-nonsense sidekick—the Oscar-nominated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a lavish celebration of the triumph of make-believe over reality.
Play Trailer. Remarkable. Unbelievable. Impossible. And true. Overview. An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. Terry Gilliam. Director, Screenplay. Rudolph Erich Raspe. Novel. Gottfried August Bürger. Novel. Charles McKeown. Screenplay. Rudolf Erich Raspe. Writer. Reviews 1.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) and an all-star cast including John Neville, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed and Uma Thurman deliver this tale of the enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen on his journey to save a town from defeat.
