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Jan 3, 2023 · An otherworldly exploration of the realm between life and death, this horror masterpiece transcends its genre with its poetic, often unsettling use of fragmentation and discontinuity.
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 ...
Mar 8, 2019 · “He was so intensely full of life, funny, playful and adventurous. It was like having a playmate with the imagination of a child and the access to the world and rights of an adult.
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." Plot.
Munchausen (1943; Josef von Baky) is a remarkable film in many ways. Produced to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ufa (Universum Film AG), Germany’s leading studio between the end of WWI and the end of WWII, Munchausen had an essentially unlimited budget.
“Though he was magical and brilliant and made images and stories that will live for a long, long time,” she writes of Gilliam, “it’s hard to calculate whether they were worth the price of the hell that so many went through over the years to help him make them.”
