The Pied Piper

Name: The Pied Piper
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1986-07-29
Duration: 53 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus, Michal Pavlíček, Vilém Čok

7.4(74 votes)

0h 53m

July 29, 1986

AnimationFantasyDrama

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.