The Fabulous Baron Munchausen served as an influence for Terry Gilliam, who was then making his own version of the Munchausen stories, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". According to Gilliam: British magazine Home Cinema Choice voted "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" the best digitally restored film of 2017, defeating such films as "The Thing", "The Wages of Fear" and "Mulholland Drive". The Fabulous Baron Munchausen The Fabulous Baron Munchausen () is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings
Baron Munchausen and the illustrations may have been his work as well. By May 1786, Raspe no longer had control over the book, which was taken over by a different publisher, G. Kearsley. Kearsley, intending the book for a higher-class audience than the original editions had been, commissioned extensive additions and revisions from other hands, including new stories, twelve new engravings, and much rewriting of Raspe's prose. This third edition was sold at two shillings, twice the price of the original, as "Gulliver Revived, or the Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures of Baron Munikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen". Kearsley's version was a