1962 · fantasy · adventure · animation
Baron Munchausen
Directed by Karel Zeman1h 25m1962
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
Our read: Baron Munchausen (1962) reads as a cosy, kinetic, surreal fantasy · adventure · animation entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle fantasy / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
- signature
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