Baron Munchausen 1979 Russian television film "The Very Same Munchhausen", directed by Mark Zakharov from Grigori Gorin's screenplay, produced and released by Mosfilm. The film, a satirical commentary on Soviet censorship and social mores, imagines an ostracized Baron attempting to prove the truth of his adventures in a disbelieving and conformity-driven world. In 1988, Terry Gilliam adapted the Raspe stories into a lavish Hollywood film, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", with the British stage actor and director John Neville in the lead. Roger Ebert, in his review of the film, described Neville's Baron as a man who "seems sensible and matter-of-fact, as
Baron Munchausen for the book, combined animation with live-action actors, including Miloš Kopecký as the Baron. In the Soviet Union in 1929 by Daniil Cherkes was released cartoon "Adventures of Munchausen". In the Soviet Union, Soyuzmultfilm released a 16-minute stop-motion animation "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1967, directed by Anatoly Karanovich. Another Soviet animated version was produced as a series of short films, "Munchausen's Adventures", in 1973 and 1974. The French animator Jean Image filmed "The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen" in 1979, and followed it with a 1984 sequel, "Moon Madness". Oleg Yankovsky appeared as the Baron in the