Who to Trust?

I found the narrative framework intriguing in the context of the film coming from the Nazi era.  The stories of Baron Münchausen had been famous for a long time, particularly because they were known as fantastic and exaggerated.  Here, however, we have Münchausen telling his own story in his own words, and those words being accepted at face value.  The young couple listening to the story does not question the validity of the story, despite the unlikelihood of the story being true.  In fact, the young woman (who had perused the Baron before) gets extremely upset and frightened. In the Nazi context, this is important because it subtlety encourages blind adherence and acceptance of the word of the protagonist as fact, no matter how ridiculous the story may be.

 

Another, unrelated note:  I found it interesting that on the International Movie Database (www.imdb.com) a user states “A great German, Not Nazi, Film,” despite it being commissioned by Goebbels and made for the 25^th Anniversary of Ufa.