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The Pied Piper

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

1986 · 0h 53m · Animation, Fantasy, Drama

YES. This is a genuinely striking piece of animation history—a darkly inventive Czech masterpiece that swings for the fences with stop-motion artistry and moral bite. If you're craving something visually daring and thematically rich that actually takes risks, this is exactly the kind of hidden gem you should be hunting for tonight.

Plot

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.

Director: Jiří Barta

Cast: Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus, Michal Pavlíček, Vilém Čok

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