The Fabulous Baron Munchausen


The Fabulous Baron Munchausen Czech Baron Pril is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines liveaction with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings of Gustave Dor.

The astronautcosmonaut 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 Vernes From the Earth to the Moon. Taken to a dinner table, the surprised space traveller meets the characters from Vernes book and Baron Munchausen. Inviting him to their table, the characters believe that the cosmonaut is a man actually from the moon, and kindly treat him as a small child.The Baron decides to take him to Earth in a fanciful airship held up by a herd of winged horses. The Baron dresses the spaceman, called Joey in the English dubbed version and Tonik in the original Czech, in 18th Century costume where they land in 18th Century Turkey. Speaking in an unintelligible voice that he calls the language of diplomacy the Baron presents Joey to the Sultan. However Joeys lack of knowledge of diplomatic protocol and his falling in love with Princess Bianca, a damsel in distress held prisoner by the Sultan, leads to a series of romantic and fanciful adventures that transform the modern scientific space traveller into a hero rivalling the Baron. ........

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