Michele Soavi Wyman. He directed his first feature film with 1987's "Stage Fright" for producer Joe D'Amato. He worked as assistant director to Terry Gilliam on "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1988, and followed this with his second feature film as director, 1989's "La Chiesa" ("The Church"). His third feature, "The Sect" (a.k.a. "The Devil's Daughter"), followed in 1990. Soavi has been credited as almost single-handedly continuing the traditions of Italian horror in the 1990s, directing the acclaimed zombie love story "Dellamorte Dellamore" (a.k.a. "Cemetery Man"). The film was based on Tiziano Sclavi's novel of the same name, and the author
Baron Munchausen any more stories, and he attempted without success to bring legal proceedings against Bürger and the publisher of the translation. The following tables summarize the early publication history of Raspe's text, from 1785 to 1800. Unless otherwise referenced, information in the tables comes from the Munchausen bibliography established by John Patrick Carswell. The fictional Baron Munchausen is a braggart soldier, most strongly defined by his comically exaggerated boasts about his own adventures; all of the stories in Raspe's book are told in first-person narrative, with a prefatory note explaining that "the Baron is supposed to relate these extraordinary Adventures over