The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil)

„Why do I make movies? I’m looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where no director has planted his flag of conquest, a world that exists only in fairy tales“ — Karel Zeman

„He did what I’m still trying to do, which is to try and combine live action with animation. His Doré-esque backgrounds were wonderful. The film captured the real spirit of the character“ — Terry Gilliam

„Zeman’s films are unique glimpses into forgotten worlds of myth, invention and exploration. One almost needs a telescope to view them“ — Peter Strickland

„Karel Zeman and Ray Harryhausen were the two big inspirations for me… what Zeman did was amazing“ — Tim Burton

„Of all the takes on the oft-filmed debonair teller of outlandish heroic tales […} Karel Zeman’s remains the most novel, formally and narratively. With its imagery tinted like Victorian postcards and with colour applied with Expressionistic gusto, it’s surely the most beautiful, too, as it melds live-action with cut-out and other forms of animation, rhyming all awhile with a dreamlike Zdeněk Liška score“ — Cerise Howard, Senses of Cinema

„This immensely stylized, transfixingly beautiful mix of animation and live-action from the ‚Czech Méliès‘. A colourful, mind expanding masterpiece“ — Blue Sunshine