The Adventures of Baron Munchausen DVD 1988 Remarkable. Unbelievable. Impossible. And True / Directed by Terry Gilliam / Starring: John Neville, Uma Thurman, Eric Idle

UPC 5050582359275

MADE IN UK

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 2.1, French 2.1, German 2.1, Spanish mono

Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Runtime: 121 minutes

English Summary:

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman. The film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire.

In an unnamed war-torn European city in the "Age of Reason", amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor, "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson", reinforces the city's commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers and citizens.

Not far into the play, an elderly man claiming to be the real Baron interrupts the show, protesting its many inaccuracies. Over the complaints of the audience, the theatre company and Jackson, the "real" Baron gains the house's attention and narrates through flashback an account of one of his adventures, of a life-or-death wager with the Grand Turk, where the younger Baron's life is saved only by his amazing luck plus the assistance of his remarkable associates: Berthold, the world's fastest runner; Adolphus, a rifleman with superhuman eyesight; Gustavus, who possesses extraordinary hearing, and sufficient lung power to knock down an army by exhaling; and the fantastically strong Albrecht.

Cast

• John Neville as Baron Munchausen
• Eric Idle as Berthold/Desmond
• Sarah Polley as Sally Salt
• Oliver Reed as Vulcan
• Uma Thurman as Venus/Rose
• Jonathan Pryce as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
• Bill Paterson as Henry Salt
• Charles McKeown as Adolphus/Rupert
• Winston Dennis as Albrecht/Bill
• Jack Purvis as Gustavus/Jeremy
• Robin Williams (credited as "Ray D. Tutto") as The King of the Moon^[5]
• Valentina Cortese as Queen Ariadne/Violet
• Peter Jeffrey as Sultan Mahmud I
• Alison Steadman as Daisy
• Ray Cooper as Functionary
• Don Henderson as Commander
• Sting (cameo) as Heroic officer
• Terry Gilliam (uncredited) as Irritating singer