1962 - THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN, an impressive fantasy film

You should just sit back and enjoy the amazing visual and special effects that filmmaker Karel Zeman poured into his version of the Baron Munchausen legend.

Zeman takes the famous incidents in the Baron's legend and gives them their own spin starting with the visit to the Sultan, riding the cannonball, and being swallowed up by a huge fish, all very amusing stuff.

 Zeman and his team created one impressive image after another.  As has been remarked his special effects are like woodcarvings coming to life and all created in camera.

 

As usual in a Zeman film the actors are essentially puppets in the hands of Zeman's fantasy storytelling.

 

Written by Karel Zeman, Josef Kainar, and Jiri Brdecka, the running time is 85 minutes.