The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Rating: PG
Runtime: 126 minutes

During the "Age of Reason" of the late 18th century, the Turkish army lays siege to a European city where a theater production about the extraordinary heroics of famed German aristocrat Baron Münchhausen is underway. A man steps forward to… more »



Baron Munchausen:
What's this?

Vulcan:
Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.

Baron Munchausen:
Ah! What does it do?

Vulcan:
Do? Kills the enemy.

Baron Munchausen:
All the enemy?

Vulcan:
Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.

Sally:
That's horrible.

Vulcan:
Ahh. Well, you see, the advantage is you don't have to see one single one of them die. You just sit comfortably thousands of miles away from the battlefield and simply press the button.

Berthold:
Well, where's the fun in that?

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