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AnimationFantasyDrama

The Pied Piper

Director
Jiří Barta
Year
1986
Runtime
53m
Rated
NR
Release
1986
Language
cs
Country
XC · DE

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01 · Overview

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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.

  • #no dialogue
  • #european animation
  • #expressionism
  • #costume drama
  • #surrealism
  • #european horror
  • #rat
  • #medieval europe
  • #dark fairy tale
  • #dark fantasy
  • #europe
  • #czech surrealism

  • Directed by

    Jiří Barta

  • Written by

    Kamil Pixa

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