1979MOSFILM
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Comic fantasy about life, love and
death of the famous baron Munchhausen
who lived in Germany in the 18th century
and became the hero of many
merry books and legends.
And that is not all.
- It isn't?
- No.
We held out and struck at the flank.
I lead the dragoons across the mire.
But my horse made a false step and we began
sinking. It was a desperate situation.
I had to make a choice:
either die or find a way of rescue.
So what did you choose?
Have a guess.
I decided to save myself. But how?
There was no rope, no pole, nothing.
And then it dawned on me. My head!
The head is always handy, gentlemen.
I grabbed my own hair
and pulled with all my might.
And I do have a lot of power in my arms,
thank God, and my head is clever enough!
So I yanked
And pulled myself from the mire.
And the horse too.
You maintain that a man
can lift himself by the hair?
Absolutely.
A clever man absolutely has
to do it from time to time.
Nonsense! It is impossible.
Where is the proof?
Am I alive?
That is it.
- You speak about hunting.
- Do I?
Well, you did not say it, you thought.
Just imagine, a year ago somewhere
here I ran into a deer.
I took aim and just remembered that
I had no bullets! Nothing but cherry.
I loaded my gun with a cherry stone
shot and hit the deer in the forehead.
It ran away.
Just imagine, this spring
at the same place
I met my beautiful deer
who had a marvellous cherry tree
growing on his head.
How do you mean a cherry tree?
A tree? Growing on the deer's head?
Why not a cherry orchard!
If it were an orchard
I would say an orchard.
But since it was a tree
why should I lie?
I always tell the truth.
The truth?
"THAT VERY MUNCHHAUSEN"
WRITTEN BY GRIGORIY GORIN
DIRECTED BY MARK ZAHAROV
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
VLADIMIR NAHABTSEV
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
GEORGY KOLGANOV
COMPOSER ALEXEI RYBNIKOV
SOUND BY YURIY RABINOVICH, CONDUCTOR
SERGEI SKRIPKA, LYRICS BY YURIY ENTIN
DIRECTOR LEONID CHERTOK
CAMERAMAN SERGEI ARMAND
COSTUME DESIGNER N.FIRSOVA, FILM EDITING
I.TSEKAVAYA, MAKE-UP N.MINAYEVA
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: DIRECTOR
V.YAKUBOVICH, DESIGNER I.IVANOVA
GENERAL EDITOR I.VINOGRADOV
MUSICAL EDITOR A.LAPISOV
PRODUCTION MANAGER LAZAR MILKIS
CAST
BARON MUNCHHAUSEN - OLEG YANKOVSKY
JAKOBINA MUNCHHAUSEN - INNA CHURIKOVA
MARTA - YELENA KORENEVA
BURGOMASTER - IGOR KVASHA,
RAMKOPF - ALEKSANDR ABDULOV,
THEOPHIL - LEONID YARMOLNIK,
THOMAS - YURI KATIN-YARTSEV
PASTOR - VLADIMIR DOLINSKY,
DUKE - LEONID BRONEVOY,
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF - SEMYON FARADA,
JUDGE - VSEVOLOD LARIONOV
EXTRAS: A. AMASPYURYANTS, A.MYULSTEDT
G.OSHKOLUP, N.PALLADINA, O.SOKOLOV,
K.YU.STEIMAN, V.IANOVSKIS, I.YASULOVICH
Oh
Sure, we all know how to pull.
There's a door handle, why not pull at it?
People sweat fixing it
But we don't care,
Everyone is eager to demonstrate his
strength. Just can't keep his hands off it.
Get hold of it quietly, pull lightly.
Not at all! Jerk it with all your might.
You won't go jerking like that at home,
But while it is some one else's house everything
is all right, whatever gets in the way.
You will never get them to drive in
a new hook or to change the ring, no.
As for writing silly things on the walls,
that's something we are pretty good at.
OK, now it looks right.
You can ring the bell.
Oh!
Now that's different.
Pastor, please.
The baron is expecting you. He has been
working in his study since morning.
He locked himself up and every now and then
he asks: "Thomas, has the pastor come yet?"
I say: "Not yet". And he says "That's just
as well". He is very eager to see you.
I say now, is your master
the very Munchhausen?
Yes, the very Munchhausen.
- Are those his hunting trophies?
- They are.
Once the baron
went hunting to the wood.
A bear attacked him. And since
the baron had no gun...
Why wasn't he carrying a gun?
- I