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The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

Sep 01, 1986 56m
7.5
66 votes

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.

Title The Pied Piper
Companies TV 2000 Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Krátký film Praha, Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
Countries Czechoslovakia, Germany
Keywords stop motion, based on fairy tale, expressionism, rat, dark fairy tale, pied piper, piper