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kobvindex_ZLB13780377
Format:
1 DVD Video (ca. 111 Min.)
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in Agfacolor ; NTSC
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Bildformat: 1.33:1 (full-frame)
Content:
In early 1943, just as Nazi Germany began its collapse with the surrender at Stalingrad, the famed Ufa Studios released an elaborate super-spectacle to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary. Produced at the enormous cost of 6.5 million Reichsmarks, and filmed in Agfacolor, MÜNCHHAUSEN was the bizarre Nazi response to such extravaganzas as Britain's The Thief of Bagdad and Hollywood's The Wizard of Oz, both of which were jealously admired by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. Starring Hans Albers, the hypnotic, blond superstar (who kept a Jewish lover safely in London), and a bevy of female stars, the film was meant to divert a German public, and those in occupied Europe, then experiencing aerial bombardment as well as extensive military casualties. 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, and a rich color palette, supervised by cameraman Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, who had worked for Fritz Lang in earlier Ufa films. (Covertext)
Content:
Extras: Introduction by Friedemann Beyer, head of the F. W. Murnau Foundation (about the foundation, its mission, and what they have done in the past. He also talks about the restoration process for the film, the Agfacolor process and the political climate when the film was made (17 min.). Original theatrical trailer. Animated short film: " Die Abenteuer des Baron Münchhausen - eine Winterreise" (1944). Examples of Agfacolor restoration: "Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten" (1941). Excerpt from the Agfracolor film : "Die Fledermaus" (1944, 5 min.). Pop-culture gallery of Münchhausen images.
Note:
Ländercode: 1
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Zeichentrickkurzfilm: "Die Abenteuer des Baron Münchhausen - eine Winterreise" (1944 - in Farbe mit Musik, ohne Dialoge)
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Dt. mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
German
Keywords:
Restaurierung
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Farbfilm
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Interview
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Interview
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Interview
Author information:
Bürger, Gottfried August
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Baky, Josef von
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Raspe, Rudolf Erich
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Horney, Brigitte
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Albers, Hans
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Kästner, Erich
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Bendow, Wilhelm
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