The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Psychedelic | Adventure | Czech Film

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Plot:
The Baron Munchausen (Milos Kopecky) is an over-the-top storyteller whose fantastic adventures take him everywhere from dusty Turkish battlefields to the deepest recesses of a whale's belly. When the Baron, who is enjoying a relaxing stay on the moon, is joined by gregarious space traveler Cyrano de Bergerac, the duo set off on a round-the-universe journey that will introduce them to the beautiful Princess Bianca (Jana Brejchová) and the formidable Tonik (Rudolf Jelinek).
Release date: 1964 (USA)
Director: Karel Zeman
Language: Czech
Story by: Rudolf Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger
Adapted from: Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
Music by: Zdeněk Liška

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Czech: Baron Prášil) is a 1962 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings of Gustave Doré.

A digital restoration of the film premiered on 5 September 2016 at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States.

The film begins with footsteps leading to a pond. The camera continually moves upwards to show the flight of butterflies, birds, and a progression of historical aircraft ending with a rocket ship travelling through space and landing on the Moon.

The astronaut/cosmonaut leaves his spacecraft and sights other footsteps on the Moon leading him to an old phonograph, then a crashed rocket with a plaque reading Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.

Directed by Karel Zeman
Written by
Karel Zeman
Josef Kainar
Jiří Brdečka
Starring
Miloš Kopecký
Jana Brejchová
Rudolf Jelínek
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karel Höger
Cinematography Jiří Tarantík
Edited by Věra Kutilová
Music by Zdeněk Liška
Release date
21 September 1962
Running time 85 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech
Box office
4.7 million KČs
($14.2 million)

Source:
https://archive.org/details/the-fabulous-baron-munchausen

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