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The Pied Piper

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NR 1986 53 min
75%
Audience score86 votes on TMDB

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.

Screenplay
Kamil Pixa
Director
Jiří Barta
Status
Released
Release date
29/07/1986
Original language
Czech

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