The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
About The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Baron Munchausen jumps off the title page of his memoirs and starts telling a story. The tale is a hunt for a cunning fox, drawn as a string of lies.
Cast & crew
More about The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Daniil Cherkes directed and shared the script with Natalya Sats. Animators were Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Vladimir Suteyev, and Vera Valerianova. Credits name Mezhrabpomfilm and also the Central State Photo-Cinema Enterprise "Moscow." It is a drawn, silent, black-and-white short, the first Soviet cartoon of Rudolf Erich Raspe's Munchausen book.
Background
Released in 1929, when Soviet animators were starting to adapt classic books.
In film history
The first Soviet animated version of Raspe's Baron Munchausen.
Making
Cherkes, Sats, Ivanov-Vano, Suteyev, and Valerianova made the short as a drawn film rather than a cut-out.
Reviews
In the 2002 documentary World of Animation, or Animation of the World, Eduard Nazarov calls the film a forerunner of later Russian animation practice.
Music
The film is silent.
Preservation
A complete copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Pokhozhdeniya Myunkhgauzena.
- A Wikimedia copy runs 18 minutes and 24 seconds. The filmography lists 18 minutes and 14 seconds.
- Ivanov-Vano and Suteyev later became leading Soviet animation directors.
Scenes
- Munchausen steps off the title page of his memoirs and begins the fox story.
Influenced by
- Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (Rudolf Erich Raspe)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1929. Похождения Мюнхгаузена.webm)