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 a weekly "Baron Munchausen" comic strip from 1935 to 1937, and in 1962, Raspe's text was adapted for "Classics Illustrated" #146 (British series), with both interior and cover art by the British cartoonist Denis Gifford. In the first published illustrations, which may have been drawn by Raspe himself, the Baron appears slim and youthful. For the 1792 "Sequel to the Adventures of Baron Munchausen", an anonymous artist drew the Baron as a dignified but tired old soldier whose face is marred by injuries from his adventures; this illustration remained the standard portrait of the Baron for about seventy years, and