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 that the namesake's identity was irrelevant to the general reader, and Richard Asher named Munchausen syndrome using the anglicized spelling so that the disorder would reference the character rather than the real person. On the other hand, Münchhausen remains strongly connected to the character he inspired, and is still nicknamed the "Lügenbaron" ("Baron of Lies") in German. As the Munchausen researcher Bernhard Wiebel has said, "These two barons are the same and they are not the same." Reviewing the first edition of Raspe's book in December 1785, a writer in "The Critical Review" commented appreciatively: A writer for "The English