The Turkish army lays siege to a city where a theater production about the heroics of Baron Münchhausen is underway. A man objects that the performance is inaccurate, claiming he is the real baron. When the Turkish soldiers approaches, Münchhausen undertakes his latest adventure to defend the city.

At the time, Terry Gilliam’s follow-up to Time Bandits and Brazil went so over-budget that the studio called it a flop. But time made it a cult classic: A handcrafted wonder and a funny, star-studded, and mind-bending fairy tale for the child in every adult and the adult in every child.