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 Adventures of Baron Munchausen various films including "Baron Munchausen's Dream" (1911, Georges Méliès), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1943, Josef von Báky with script by Erich Kästner), "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" (1961, Karel Zeman), and "The Very Same Munchhausen" (1979) directed by Mark Zakharov, who depicted Munchausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him. The film was over budget; what was originally $23.5 million, grew to a reported $46.63 million. Gilliam, acknowledging he had gone over budget, said its final costs had been nowhere near $40 million. In "The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen" (included on