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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Milos Kopecký | ... | Baron Munchausen | |
| Rudolf Jelínek | ... | Tonik | |
| Jana Brejchová | ... | Princess Bianca | |
| Karel Höger | ... | Cyrano | |
| Eduard Kohout | ... | General Ellemerle | |
| Jan Werich | ... | Ship's Captain | |
| Bohus Záhorský | ... | Admiral | |
| Rudolf Hrusínský | ... | The Sultan | |
| Miroslav Holub | ... | Enemy General | |
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Frantisek Slégr | ... | Pirate Captain |
| Karel Effa | ... | Adjutant | |
| Josef Hlinomaz | ... | Spanish General | |
| Zdenek Hodr | ... | Nicole | |
| Richard Záhorský | ... | Barbicain | |
| Otto Simánek | ... | Ardan | |
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The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds - the world of a rococo cavalier whose fantasy does not have any limits and the world of a young man of the present time. The astronaut (Rudolf Jelínek) finds on the moon the famous dreamer Baron Münchhausen (Milos Kopecký), who takes him back to earth and a variety of exaggerated adventures. Amusing variation on the old stories, using live action against deliberately artificial backgrounds. Written by KrátkýFilm
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21 September 1962 (Czechoslovakia) See more »Also Known As:
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #1017. See more »Quotes
Cyrano D'Bergarac: I cast my hat out into the universe, let it greet those who are on thier way from earth. From this day forward, the moon is no longer a dream....See more »
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Zeman's magnum opus is every bit as compelling and otherworldly as the legends indicate. In fact, as I also have FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE & ON THE COMET on tape, take my word for it: PRASIL/MUNCHAUSEN is the Zeman to see if your only seeing one. Given those hallucinatory Gustav Dore-meets- Arthur Rackham visuals, the wildly disjointed narrative and from-hunger post-synched soundtrack actually ADD to the out-of-body experience that is this film. It's like stumbling into somebody else's fever dream. While Zeman's other films generally succumb to a deadly torpor around halfway through, this one is just so jampacked with surreal oddities and unforgettable bizarro setpieces that you're in flabbergasted joy right through to the end. Terry Gilliam (a major Zeman fan) attempted a lavish remake that missed the whole point of this film's one-of-a-kind quality: the sense throughout that this is a handcrafted film, an artisan's project free of studio meddling, brand name stars or big budget elephantiasis. PRASIL's amateurism is its crowning glory. Essential viewing...at least once.