General Zdeněk Hodr as Nicole Miloslav Holub as Enemy General Miroslav Homola as Chess Player Václav Trégl as Sailor Bohuš Záhorský as Admiral Richard Záhorský as Barbicain Reception The film was released internationally throughout the 1960s, including a 1964 American dub under The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Howard Thompson of The New York Times described it as "a delectable oddity with a perky, intriguing music track," and writer Harlan Ellison termed it a "charming and sweethearted 1961 Czech fantasy filled with loopy special effects." César Santos Fontenla of Triunfo called the film "a masterpiece" and added: "the film is undoubtedly the most exciting experiment so far in animation and in combining different techniques ... The Méliès influence is present throughout the film, which reaches the same level of poetry as the works of that old master." Le Mondes film blog called Zeman's technique "perfectly fitted" (parfaitement adaptée) to the Baron Munchausen stories, and described the result as "endowed with a splendid sense of humor and very inventive" (doté d’un bel humour et très inventif). The film historian Peter Hames described Baron Prášil as "perhaps [Zeman's] finest film." When the film was screened at the British Film Institute in the 1980s, it served as an influence for Terry Gilliam, who was then making his own version of the Munchausen stories, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. According to Gilliam: British magazine Home Cinema Choice voted The Fabulous Baron Munchausen the best digitally restored film of 2017, defeating such films as The Thing, The Wages of Fear and Mulholland Drive. The restored version of the film is about six minutes shorter and omits 27 scenes compared to the original footage. References External links 1962 films Baron Munchausen Czech adventure films Czech animated films Czech fantasy films Czech romantic films 1960s Czech-language films Czechoslovak animated films Films directed by Karel Zeman Films set in the 18th century Films set in Istanbul Films set in the Ottoman Empire Films with live action and animation 1960s romantic fantasy films 1960s stop-motion animated films Films with screenplays by Jiří Brdečka Films with screenplays by Karel Zeman Films based on From the Earth to the Moon Czech animated adventure films Czech animated fantasy films Czech animated romance films