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Münchhausen
- Title
- Münchhausen [videorecording] / UFA.
- Publication
- Chicago : International Historic Films, 1943.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2266 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (122 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Münchhausen was commissioned by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UFA film studio. The script by Erich Kästner (who had to write under the pseudonym Berthold Bürger due to his blacklist status) drew upon several literary accounts of a purportedly historical figure, Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen who lived in Gottingen from 1720-1797 and who was a notorious traveler and adventurer. Preparations for the lavishly-produced film began in 1941 with director and crew screening such films as Disney's Snow White, Selznick's Gone with the wind and Korda's Thief of Bagdad. No expense was spared. Genuine Meissen tableware was used for the Russian banquet scene; traffic was halted on the Grand Canal in Venice for location shots and the newly-developed Afga color stock was used. The film begins in the present at a costume ball presided over by the jovial but sinister Baron Münchhausen, a descendant (perhaps?) of his infamous forebear whose story is told in flashback. Baron Münchhausen serves in the Russian court of Catherine the Great where he is given the gift of eternal youth by the magician Cagliostro. Sent by Catherine to command a regiment in Turkey, he is inadvertently shot on a canonball to Constantinople where he becomes the prisoner of the sultan. Rescuing Princess Isabella d'Este from the sultan's harem, Münchhausen and his beautiful charge escape to Venice. Fleeing that city, the Baron embarks on a surrealistic journey to the moon. At the film's conclusion, the supposed "contemporary" nobleman reveals his true identity.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Action and adventure films.
- Note
- In German without subtitles.
- Based on the novels by Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger, Karl Immermann and Carl Haensel.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Josef von Baky; screenplay, Berthold Bürger (pseudonym for Erich Kästner); cinematography, Werner Krien; art direction, Emil Hasler, Otto Gulstorff; music, Georg Haentzschel; special effects, Konstantin Irmen-Taxhet.
- Performer (note)
- Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Gustav Waldrau, Ilse Werner, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann, Kaethe Haack, Hermann Speelmanns, Walter Lieck, Ferdinand Marian, Leo Slezak.
- Title
- Münchhausen [videorecording] / UFA.
- Imprint
- Chicago : International Historic Films, 1943.
- Credits
- Director, Josef von Baky; screenplay, Berthold Bürger (pseudonym for Erich Kästner); cinematography, Werner Krien; art direction, Emil Hasler, Otto Gulstorff; music, Georg Haentzschel; special effects, Konstantin Irmen-Taxhet.
- Cast
- Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Gustav Waldrau, Ilse Werner, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann, Kaethe Haack, Hermann Speelmanns, Walter Lieck, Ferdinand Marian, Leo Slezak.
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- Added Author
- Baky, Josef von.Albers, Hans.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2266 M