Directed by:
Josef von BákyScreenplay:
Erich KästnerComposer:
Georg HaentzschelCast:
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Käthe Haack, Leo Slezak, Eduard von Winterstein, Victor Janson, Bernhard Goetzke, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian (more)Plots(1)
13 feature films were shot in wartime Nazi Germany in Agfacolor between 1939 and 1945. The most colorful of them was MÜNCHHAUSEN, the classic German picaresque about the lying Baron and his tall tales later tackled by none other than Terry Gilliam. Münchhausen fights animated clothing and a Venetian raggart, wins a duel in the dark, gambles for his life with a decadent Sultan, plows through his harem and rides a hot-air baloon to the moon and back again, where he realizes the value of his magically obtained immortality. Back in the fictional present, in which he tells an amazed young couple about these and other adventures, he dicides to give up immortality for something even better: For love. A sweet lie about a fascinating liar, an orgy of prodution values, a special effects extravaganza. (Filmfest München)
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Trude Heess
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