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Josef von Báky (23 March 1902, Zombor, Austria-Hungary – 28 July 1966, Munich, West Germany) was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Báky. He was born in the village of Zobor in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Zombor, Slovakia).
Sep 9, 2003 · In 1943 the most lavish Munchausen film to date appeared in Germany, Josef von Baky’s Adventures of Baron Münchhausen. Josef Goebbels funded the giant project and writes about it at length in his diaries; the budget was extravagant and as such it was the first Munchausen film to appear in colour, discounting a Pathé stencil print of the ...
Jan 3, 2023 · Georges Méliès’s 1911 The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen projects the character into various spectacles hovering above his nighttime bed; Josef von Báky’s 1943 Münchhausen spared no opulence, though it was, according to film scholar Eric Rentschler, “commissioned by the Nazi regime in the midst of World War II” and stands as ...
Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky. Science fiction author David Wingrove has commented that this work "sidesteps immediate political issues whilst conjuring up marvellous visual images of an ageless pastoral Germany."
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Directed by Josef von Báky. With Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter. This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
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Josef von Báky (1902–1966) was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Vojvodina, Serbia). He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.
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Mar 8, 2019 · French filmmaker George Méliès first tackled the larger-than-life character on film in a 1911 short, followed by Josef von Báky’s 1943 German production and Zeman’s 1961 fantasy adventure.
