Münchhausen
1943
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Josef von Báky (23 March 1902, Zombor, Austria-Hungary – 28 July 1966, Munich, West Germany) was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Báky. He was born in the village of Zobor in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Zombor, Slovakia). He worked as an assistant to Géza von Bolváry.
Josef von Báky was born on 23 March 1902 in Zombor, Austria-Hungary [now Sombor, Serbia]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), Der Ruf (1949) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943). He was married to Juliska Németh. He died on 28 July 1966 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Zombor, Austria-Hungary [now Sombor, Serbia]
- January 1, 1
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Directed by Josef von Báky. 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.
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- Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
- Josef von Báky
- 1943-08-06
Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky. Science fiction author David Wingrove has commented that this work "sidesteps immediate political issues whilst conjuring up marvellous visual images of an ageless pastoral Germany."
- Eberhard Schmidt
- Erich Kästner
Jan 3, 2023 · Georges Méliès’s 1911 The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen projects the character into various spectacles hovering above his nighttime bed; Josef von Báky’s 1943 Münchhausen spared no opulence, though it was, according to film scholar Eric Rentschler, “commissioned by the Nazi regime in the midst of World War II” and stands as ...
Sep 9, 2003 · The forties, a prolific decade for the Baron, saw four adaptations made, beginning with Czech animator Martin Fric’s Baron Prásil (1940). In 1943 the most lavish Munchausen film to date appeared in Germany, Josef von Baky’s Adventures of Baron Münchhausen.
Josef von Báky is known as an Director, Assistant Director, Actor, and Producer. Some of his work includes Münchhausen, The Strange Countess, Two Times Lotte, Annelie, Fuhrmann Henschel, The Girl and the Legend, The Last Illusion, and Delikatessen.
