The Pied Piper (1988)
PG
17/02/1988 (GB)
Animation, Fantasy
56m
- 74% (70 votes)
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Overview
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.
- Jiří BartaDirector
- Kamil PixaScreenplay
Original Title
Krysař
Status
Released
Original Language
Czech
Keywords
- stop motion
- based on fairy tale
- expressionism
- rat
- dark fairy tale
- pied piper
- piper
Top Billed Cast
Oldřich Kaiser
(voice)
Jiří Lábus
(voice)
Michal Pavlíček
(voice)
Vilém Čok
(voice)
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