PG | 2h 6min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 1989
It seems that eccentric director Terry Gilliam has a few things in common with the equally eccentric 18th-century German writer and librarian Rudolf Erich Raspe. One of Raspe’s more surreal novels, “Baron Münchhausen’s Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia,” follows the adventures of a semi-mythical folk hero, the titular Baron Munchausen. In real life, he was named Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen.
