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Munchausen
Design Includes Whale's Belly, Moonscapes
by Nicoletta Dentico
On the last two
days of shooting
of Baron Munch¬
lot of action. The Baron,
at Cinecitta Studios, it was
apparent what an achievement the
$25 million
a
ausen
comedy-adventurefantasy was to have been in terms
of human effort, and not only be¬
cause of its high budget. Everybody
was untiringly active and working
till the very last moment, without
respite. Among them was famed
art director Dante Ferretti, perhaps
most heavily burdened by the
scope and action of this movie, the
biggest production to come to Cine¬
citta since Cleopatra - exactly 20
years ago.
"I have made many
a
er
with his
whale. He travels to Constantino¬
ple
...
one,
it's like making five movies in
sion not to take
work,
flashback movie called The
a
was
not
film
as
come
to
an
collaborator, and, in fact, his fa¬
vourite art director. Ferretti
can
claim
participation in as many as
five of the outstanding Italian direc¬
tor's films. Along with his major
going to work on his last
People asked a lot of
questions and, since I didn't feel
like discussing my personal affairs,
I started to spread the word that I
was
going to work on the new mov¬
ie by Terry Gilliam, practically
making it up that Terry Gilliam
well.
would make
a new movie at all. I
chose Gilliam's name, because I
had previously seen his picture
screen
Brazil. It
ture
a
all of them demanded
production designer in Jean
Jacques Annaud's The Name of
a
im¬
heavy com¬
lenging work I have
ever
done,
credits, his most recent fea¬
achievement includes his work
as
The Rose.
because the movie is overwhelm¬
Paradoxically enough,
ing, all based on scenery. It is a tale,
it is a Utopia, it is reality and there
Ferretti's involvement in the extrav¬
American
Cinematographer
agant movie by cinemagician Terry
March 1989
working with
Federico Fellini for many years, and
so everyone was
surprised that I
mere fact that
end seems some¬
thing of a miracle to me."
Like Giuseppe Rotunno,
Dante Ferretti is a longtime Fellini
right after his deci¬
part in Fellini's last
Interview. "I had been
and all of them of different
conception. The
we've
Gilliam started
portant films," says Ferretti, "and
mitment. But this is the most chal¬
32
is
togeth¬
wacky companions-inarms, goes to the moon, he ends up
inside a volcano, inside the belly of
The Adventures
was
like
being bombed by
whole set of new sensations; I
pleased to
was
visuals in such a
dominant position. At that time,
then, I really wanted to make a film
see
with him. It
was a
few weeks later
when, by a very funny coincidence,
Thomas Schiili, phoned to ask if he
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