The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 fantasy adventure film that blends surreal visuals, dark humor, and imaginative storytelling to depict the exaggerated exploits of the legendary Baron.

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instanceOf British film
West German film
adventure film
comedy film
fantasy film
film
artDirectionBy Dante Ferretti
basedOn Baron Munchausen stories by Rudolf Erich Raspe
boxOfficePerformance commercial failure on initial release
character Baron Münchhausen
surface form: Baron Munchausen
cinematographyBy Giuseppe Rotunno
costumeDesignBy Gabriella Pescucci
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
West Germany
cultStatus cult film
director Terry Gilliam
distributedBy Columbia Pictures
editedBy Peter Hollywood
follows Brazil (1985 film) in Terry Gilliam’s loose trilogy of imagination
genre adventure
comedy
fantasy
surrealist film
language English
musicBy Michael Kamen
narrativeDevice story-within-a-story structure
notableFor blend of fantasy and dark humor
elaborate visual effects
imaginative production design
partOf Terry Gilliam
surface form: Terry Gilliam filmography
portrays exaggerated exploits of Baron Munchausen
producer Arnon Milchan
Thomas Schühly
productionCompany Tangent Productions
Twelve Oaks
releaseDate 1988-12-08
releaseYear 1988
runtimeMinutes 126
screenwriter Charles McKeown
Terry Gilliam
setInPeriod Age of Enlightenment
starring Eric Idle
John Neville
Jonathan Pryce
Oliver Reed
Robin Williams
Sarah Polley
Uma Thurman
visualEffectsSupervisionBy Richard Conway

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this entity surface form: Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
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