The Pied Piper

Name: The Pied Piper
Director: Jiří Barta
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1986-07-29
Duration: 53 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus, Michal Pavlíček, Vilém Čok

Original title: Krysař

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Directed by Jiří Barta

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 the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.