First-Time Viewing

The Pied Piper

Release Date:August 29, 2023

Running Time:53 min

Genres:Fantasy, Animation, Drama

Director

Jiří Barta

Cast

Oldřich Kaiser Jiří Lábus Michal Pavlíček Vilém Čok

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

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