{"id":199,"date":"2006-06-18T02:50:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=199"},"modified":"2018-08-22T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:45:52","slug":"munchausen-murnau-foundation-114-minute-restored-version-von-baky-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"(von B\u00e1ky 1943) M\u00fcnchausen [Murnau Foundation 114 minute restored version]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1943, Germany\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">UFA<\/span> stu\u00addios spent a gigan\u00adtic amount of mon\u00adey to cre\u00adate a film ver\u00adsion of the absurd fan\u00adtasy,<em> Adven\u00adtures of Mun\u00adchaussen<\/em>, which is loose\u00adly based on the extrav\u00ada\u00adgant \u201cwhop\u00adpers\u201d attrib\u00aduted to the real life Karl Friedrich Hierony\u00admus, Frei\u00adherr von M\u00fcnch\u00adhausen (1720 \u20131797). The film was in colour (at that time a very expen\u00adsive process) and the spe\u00adcial effects where the best pos\u00adsi\u00adble at the time. Read\u00aders of this site are prob\u00ada\u00adbly famil\u00adiar with the fair\u00adly recent Ter\u00adry Gilliam ver\u00adsion of the sto\u00adry. The&nbsp;von B\u00e1ky film is very good. The scenes that take place on the Moon are par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly charm\u00ading. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9557\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9557 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/06-06-18-VIEW-von-B\u00e1ky-1943-M\u00fcnchausen-Murnau-Foundation-114-minute-restored-version.jpg\" alt=\"06-06-18 VIEW (von B\u00e1ky 1943) M\u00fcnchausen [Murnau Foundation 114 minute restored version]\" width=\"369\" height=\"280\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the odd\u00adest things about the film is that there were sev\u00aderal Black actors in it. What on earth was it like to be a Black actor in Berlin in 1943? What became of them? Sure\u00adly there is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that could be made on this subject.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1943, Germany\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">UFA<\/span> stu\u00addios spent a gigan\u00adtic amount of mon\u00adey to cre\u00adate a film ver\u00adsion of the absurd fan\u00adtasy, Adven\u00adtures of Mun\u00adchaussen, which is loose\u00adly based on the extrav\u00ada\u00adgant \u201cwhop\u00adpers\u201d attrib\u00aduted to the real life Karl Friedrich Hierony\u00admus, Freiherr&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=199\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9560,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}