The Pied Piper (2023)

  • NR
  • 08/29/2023 (US)
  • Animation, Fantasy
  • 56m

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 Barta

Director

Kamil Pixa

Screenplay

Robert Browning

Characters

Cast

Oldřich Kaiser's headshot

Oldřich Kaiser

(voice)
Jiří Lábus's headshot

Jiří Lábus

(voice)
Michal Pavlíček's headshot

Michal Pavlíček

(voice)
Vilém Čok's headshot

Vilém Čok

(voice)

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