The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Category: 32
All Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release Year: 1988
Country: UK, West Germany
Runtime: 126
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Terry Gilliam
Sound: 70 mm 6-Track, Dolby SR
Taglines:

Remarkable. Unbelievable. Impossible. And true.

Adventure, Comedy, Romance. He was full of it.

A true story. We've got the film to prove it.

Bull. He was full of it.

From the director of "Time Bandits" and "Brazil" a new movie full of NOISE...FLYING OBJECTS...SEAFOOD...CELEBRITIES...COMPASSION...TRAVEL...HONOR...GRAVITY...BULL...he was full of it. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Writing by: Rudolph Erich Raspe - (novel) uncredited
Gottfried August Bürger - (novel) uncredited
Charles McKeown - (screenplay) &
Terry Gilliam - (screenplay)

Produced by: Ray Cooper - co-producer
Jake Eberts - executive producer
Stratton Leopold - supervising producer
Thomas Schühly - producer
David Tomblin - line producer

Cast: John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
Eric Idle - Desmond / Berthold
Sarah Polley - Sally Salt
Oliver Reed - Vulcan
Charles McKeown - Rupert / Adolphus
Winston Dennis - Bill / Albrecht
Jack Purvis - Jeremy / Gustavus
Valentina Cortese - Queen Ariadne / Violet
Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
Bill Paterson - Henry Salt
Peter Jeffrey - Sultan

Music: Eric Idle Michael Kamen
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Plot Outline: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Plot: The fantastic tale of a 17th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.

Movie Quotes: Sultan: Have you any famous last words?
Baron Munchausen: Not yet.
Sultan: "Not yet"? Is that famous?


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The King of The Moon - Ray Di Tutto (Actually, it was Robin Williams)

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: A man can be seen wearing a satin stadium jacket in the lower right hand corner as the camera pulls back from the making of the petticoat balloon.

Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Forms an informal trilogy with director Terry Gilliam's previous films, Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985). The three movies represent the three stages of Man (youth, middle age, and elderly) and the impact of imagination on each.
• The role of the King of the Moon was intended for Sean Connery until the role was largely cut. Sean Connery didn't think it was "kingly" enough, thus the role was played by Robin Williams.
• Robin Williams played the King of the Moon. The credits list "Ray D. Tutto". This is the English transliteration of the Italian phrase "Re di Tutto", which means "King of Everything", which was how the King of the Moon introduces himself to the Baron. Robin Williams performed the part as soon as he arrived in England after a transatlantic flight.

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