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Münchhausen (1943)
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3 November 1943 (Portugal)
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Magic with a dark side
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hans Albers | ... | Baron Münchhausen |
| Wilhelm Bendow | ... | Der Mondmann |
| Brigitte Horney | ... | Zarin Katharina II |
| Michael Bohnen | ... | Herzog Karl von Braunschweig |
| Ferdinand Marian | ... | Graf Cagliostro |
| Hans Brausewetter | ... | Freiherr von Hartenfeld |
| Hermann Speelmans | ... | Christian Kuchenreutter |
| Marina von Ditmar | ... | Sophie von Riedesel |
| Andrews Engelmann | ... | Fürst Potemkin |
| Käthe Haack | ... | Baronin Münchhausen |
| Waldemar Leitgeb | ... | Fürst Grigorij Orlow |
| Walter Lieck | ... | Der Läufer |
| Hubert von Meyerinck | ... | Prinz Anton Ulrich |
| Jaspar von Oertzen | ... | Graf Lanskoi |
| Werner Scharf | ... | Prinz Francesco d'Este |
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Baron Munchhausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (USA)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Muenchhausen
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (USA)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Muenchhausen
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Germany:119 min (restored version) | USA:110 min | Germany:134 min (premiere version)
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The length of this film, according to the Deutsche Filminstitut, was originally 134 minutes, or 3662 meters (March 1943). However, a mere three months later, it had been pruned to 118 minutes (3225 meters). After the war, the next version (December 1949) was 105 minutes, the 1954 version 101 minutes, the version for general audiences (shown that year) 88 minutes. The currently restored version, assembled by the Murnau Foundation in 1995, clocks in at 114 minutes.
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A much more interesting variation on the Münchhausen theme than Terry Gilliam would offer more than four decades later.
It is filmed in colour and - despite being produced during WWII - no expense had been spared on the lavish sets and costumes. But this is not what this film is all about. As in Gilliam's film, this Münchhausen is a magical character, but it is not the magic you find in a modern animated Walt Disney spectacle, it is a magic with a dark side, a magic that can threaten and seduce and corrupt. Münchhausen himself comes across as an ambiguous character, charismatic and heroic, but by no means cuddly and lovable.
As a result this is more a fairy tale for adults than one for children, and the full original version with nude harem girls, sexual innuendo, etc. wouldn't have passed the American censors of its day and probably still get an R rating today.