



  • The Soviets anyway had negative attitude towards Russian monarchy.









So what was the actual reason and why?

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    My dad is Russian, he loves Baron Munchausen. When I was a kid he gave me a book of Munchausen stories that he said he loved as a kid. Not really relevant, just thought it would be kind of interesting. – Elliot Gorokhovsky Sep 20 '16 at 2:37
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    Was it really banned? I can't find any mentions of that, and "Munchhausen" is missing from the lists of movies banned by Allied censorship. – Danila Smirnov Nov 15 '17 at 10:24
  • I'm not sure whether or not any movie involving Baron Münchhausen was censored immediately after the war. What we do know: At least two cartoons on the topic were created under Stalin's rule (one in 1929 and another in 1941). In 1967 there was another cartoon and a separate series in 1972-1974). – Franz Drollig Jul 31 '18 at 14:10
  • Finally, in 1979 a feature film was shot and had high ratings. Note that every single of these works passed the censors. – Franz Drollig Jul 31 '18 at 14:10

From Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: Court of the Red Czar:






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I think you're reading far too much into this film; its actual content is merely pure escapism for the masses, without any intentional ideological or propaganda significance, other than Goebbels commissioned the film to demonstrate that Nazi Germany was capable of producing sumptuous cinematic fantasies in glorious technicolor the equal of anything Hollywood could produce. It was probably banned in the USSR simply because the nudity in the film offended Stalin.

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