The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure fantasy comedy film cowritten and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman.

The film begins in an unnamed wartorn European city in the late 18th century dubbed The Age of Reason in an opening caption, where, amid explosions and gunfire from a large Turkish army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausens life and adventures is taking place. Backstage, city official The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson reinforces the citys commitment to reason here meaning uniformity by ordering the execution of a soldier Sting in a cameo who had just accomplished a nearsuperhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers.Not far into the play, an elderly man claiming to be the real Baron interrupts the show, protesting its many inaccuracies. Over the complaints of the audience, the theatre company and Jackson, the real Baron gains the houses attention and narrates through flashback an account of one of his adventures, of a lifeordeath wager with the Grand Turk, where the younger Barons life is saved only by his amazing luck plus the assistance of his remarkable associates Berthold, the worlds fastest runner Adolphus, a rifleman with superhuman eyesight Gustavus, who possesses extraordinary hearing, and sufficient lung power to knock down an army by exhaling and the fantastically strong Albrecht. ........

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