The Adventures of Baron Munchausen All three films focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination: "Time Bandits", through the eyes of a child, "Brazil", through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and "Munchausen", through the eyes of an elderly man. When the production finally came to a successful closure, several of the actors commented on the rushed tightness of the whole project. Said Eric Idle, "Up until "Munchausen", I'd always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films. You don't ever be in them. Go and see them by all means - but to be in them, "fucking madness"!!!" Sarah
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen most exciting experiment so far in animation and in combining different techniques ... The Méliès influence is present throughout the film, which reaches the same level of poetry as the works of that old master." "Le Monde"s film blog called Zeman's technique "perfectly fitted" ("parfaitement adaptée") to the Baron Munchausen stories, and described the result as "endowed with a splendid sense of humor and very inventive" ("doté d’un bel humour et très inventif"). The film historian Peter Hames described "Baron Prášil" as "perhaps [Zeman's] finest film." When the film was screened at the British Film Institute in the 1980s, it