The Pied Piper

7.4

1986

56m

AnimationFantasy

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.

Key Crew

Director

Jiří Barta

Writers

Kamil Pixa

Cinematography

Vladimír Malík

Music

Michael Kocáb

Cast (4)

Oldřich Kaiser

(voice)

Jiří Lábus

(voice)

Michal Pavlíček

(voice)

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